Since Fall 2018, the NYU Program in International Relations hosts a special workshop entitled "Climate Change: The Governance Challenge," led by Franz Baumann, NYU IR Visiting Research Professor. 

This workshop surveys the science, economics, and politics of climate change. The history of multilateral prevention efforts is retraced and their promise and problems explored. The scope of technical solutions to decarbonization – energy efficiency, renewable energy sources, carbon capture and sequestration, geoengineering – are also surveyed. The consequences of inadequate policy responses to climate change are explored.

Franz Baumann has worked for the United Nations for over thirty years in over one dozen functions in four cities and on three continents. His research focus is on the international governance of climate change.

Franz Baumann is a Senior Fellow as well as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Hertie School (Berlin). In addition, he is the Vice Chair of the Academic Council on the United Nations System, a member of the Board of Advisers of the Centre for United Nations Studies at the University of Buckingham (England) and a contributing editor of Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development.

This course is a free, non-credit workshop open to all NYU students. Registration is required.

Attendance to all sessions is not mandatory, though highly encouraged. Please check back on our events page for more information for registration and the latest dates and times. 

• “Present at the Destruction: Humanity’s Success in Ruining Nature.”  Review of Jeff Goodell’s, The Water will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World.  Los Angeles Review of Books, February 21^st 2018
• “Climate Change Is the Central Challenge for Humanity.”  IDN-InDepthNews, June 6^th 2018
• “The Systemic Challenge of Global Heating.”  International Politics Reviews, Volume 6, Issue 2, October 1^st 2018, pp. 134-144
• “To Save the Earth, Deepen Incentives for a Carbon-Free World.”  PassBlue, October 6^th 2018
• “The Green New Deal: Finally Climate Policy informed by Science,” With William J. Ripple and Dominick A. DellaSala, Climate Home News, March 18^th 2019
• “Climate Change: The Problem from Hell.”  Review of Bill McKibben’s Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play itself out?  Los Angeles Review of Books, June 9^th 2019
• “Public Health Depends on a Healthy Planet,” With Dominick A. DellaSala and Bill Ripple, The New Republic, April 20^th 2020

• The History & Science of Climate Change
• Pressures on the Earth System and their Consequences
  
• Mitigation Measures (Decarbonization)
  
• he Politics of Climate Change Action: What Now?