Speaker: Professor Dr Rolf Wüstenhagen, Good Energies Professor for
Management of Renewable Energies and a Director of the
Institute for Economy and the Environment at the University of St.
Gallen (Switzerland).
Chair: Prof. Ann Florin
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
Date: Tuesday, 6 September 2011
Time: 5.15 p.m. – 6.30 p.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 3-1, Level 3, Manasseh Meyer
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
469C Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 259772
Admission is free
Seats are limited
To enable us to gauge the attendance, please email us to indicate your interest at lkyspppl@nus.edu.sg.
Abstract
Climate change is increasingly recognized as a major global challenge. Therefore, an increasing number of universities and business schools are considering ways to include climate change in the curriculum. An innovative example of teaching climate change is the CEMS-MIM* climate strategy course and role play, which has been developed by the University of St. Gallen with support from the Swiss Federal Office of the Environment and taught three times with up to three CEMS partner universities. Given the complexity of global climate change and the challenges in coming up with adequate policy and business responses, the topic lends itself particularly well to intense learning experiences. To impart such learning, we developed a multi-school negotiation simulation that is unique in its intensiveness, cross-sector design (involving both business and public policy students), and transdisciplinary nature. This talk explains the objectives of the course, explains the choice of a role-play format, describes the curriculum, and evaluates the results of its teachings. Evaluation is based on the extent to which the course met its objectives, how individual elements contributed to overall learning, and the overlap between this curriculum and established precepts of good sustainability teaching.
* CEMS Master’s in International Management (http://www.cems.org/mim)
About the speaker
Rolf Wüstenhagen is the Good Energies Professor for Management of Renewable Energies and a Director of the Institute for Economy and the Environment at the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland). He has held visiting faculty positions at the University of British Columbia (2005) and Copenhagen Business School (2008), and was a member of the Swiss Federal Energy Research Commission (2004-2010). From 2008 to 2011, he served as one of the lead authors for the special report on renewable energy sources and climate change mitigation, published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in May 2011. Rolf’s research focuses on decision-making under uncertainty by energy investors, consumers and entrepreneurs and has been published in a variety of academic journals and other outlets. He embarked on an academic career after retiring from one of the leading European energy venture capital funds. From August 1 to September 8, 2011, Rolf is a visiting scholar at the National University of Singapore, jointly hosted by the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (supported by the MacArthur Foundation) and the Energy Studies Institute (ESI). He can be contacted at: rolf.wuestenhagen@unisg.ch
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