Contextualize this approach within the broader policy-making process.

Learning Goal: I’m working on a environmental science project and need an explanation and answer to help me learn.

This assignment asks you to dig more deeply into one of the ways to approach energy and environmental policy. You should choose one of these approaches and answer (in essay format) the question posed that week:

• Market-driven regulation: Are carbon pricing and disclosure of climate-related financial risk the solution?
• Centering incumbents: What is the role of fossil fuel companies in the energy transition?
• The rise of the climate movement and supply-side policy: Is ‘Keep it in the Ground’ a political path forward?
• Decolonization: What can we learn from Indigenous governance and leadership?
• Backlash to the energy transition: How to respond to petro-nationalism?

As you answer this question, you should:

• Contextualize this approach within the broader policy-making process.
• Identify the interests that are for and against this approach, and why they support or oppose it.
• Identify and explain the central idea(s) this approach advances as important to understanding the policy process and the energy transition.
• Identify the institutions best serve this combination of interests and ideas.
• Provide real-world examples illustrating how these interests, ideas and institutions play out in policy and political debates.

You should demonstrate an understanding of the relevant required readings (for that week, but also with respect to the broader policy process and energy transition). You should also demonstrate that you can research and apply these concepts to real-world policy debates.

This assignment should be no more than 2000 words