Policies for Energy & Materials Transitions (2025/2026: Periode 4)

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Cursusdoel

Upon completing this course, students will be able to:

  • Critically analyze and evaluate current energy and materials policies based on their effectiveness (environmental impact), efficiency (cost-effectiveness), welfare implications, and fairness.
  • Analyze and understand the interactions between policy instruments and targets.
  • Assess the impact of metric selection in policy design.
  • Understand and analyze the mechanisms behind emission certificate auctioning.
  • Apply research tools within the context of energy and material policies.
  • Write and present a coherent, data-driven, and well-argued policy note addressing a real policy-relevant research question.

Vakinhoudelijk

The energy and materials system lies at the heart of a diverse set of policies with varying aims and scopes. Some policies address climate change, while others focus on energy security, pricing, energy poverty, critical materials, innovation, or systemic transformation. Policymakers face the challenge of crafting just, coherent, and well-aligned instruments that effectively achieve the targets, ambitions, and agreements embedded in these policies.
This course equips students with a deep understanding of the interplay between policies and the energy and materials system. It encourages the development of ideas for designing intelligent, consistent, and equitable policies in a complex world. The course covers climate change mitigation (e.g., emissions trading, renewable energy, energy efficiency, and circular economy policies), geopolitics (e.g., energy security and critical materials), and broad welfare effects of the energy and materials transition (green industry policy, affordability, energy poverty, and fairness). Students will gain insights into the practical design of policy instruments that steer the system toward desired outcomes.

Werkvormen

Game
Toelichting

The course includes a carbon trading game designed to teach students the fundamentals of emissions trading and auctioning in a CO2-constrained world.

Voorbereiding

Participation in the game requires attendance at the preparation lecture. Students who miss the preparation lecture or are absent during the game will be required to complete an additional individual assignment.

Lecture
Toelichting

The course includes two two-hour (guest) lectures per week.

Project
Toelichting

During the course, students collaborate in pairs on an assignment. The assignment content varies each year but is always connected to two or more lecture topics. Topics covered in the assignment will not be included in the exams.

Tutorial
Toelichting

Each week, two two-hour tutorials are scheduled.

Bijdrage

For lectures associated with the assignment, the corresponding tutorial will be dedicated to kick-starting the assignment. Attendance at these tutorials is essential.

Toetsing

Eindresultaat

Verplicht | Weging 1% | ECTS 7,5

Assignment, mid-term exam, final exam.

Ingangseisen en voorkennis

Ingangseisen

Je moet inschreven staan voor een van de volgende opleidingen:

  • Marine Sciences, master
  • Earth, Life and Climate, master
  • Energy Science, master
  • Earth Structure and Dynamics, master
  • Earth Surface and Water, master
  • Innovation Sciences, master
  • Sustainable Business and Innovation, master
  • Sustainable Development, master
  • Water Management for Climate Adaptation, master

Voorkennis

Basic quantitative skills for analyzing the energy and materials system, including working with energy statistics, performing decomposition analysis, and conducting investment analysis.

Voorkennis kan worden opgedaan met

Following the course Tools for Energy & Materials Analysis (GEO4-2326) or equivalent.

Voertalen

  • Engels

Cursusmomenten

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Tentamens

Er is geen tentamenrooster beschikbaar voor deze cursus

Verplicht materiaal

  • ARTIKELEN
    There is no course reader. Instead, students will receive academic papers, book chapters, and reports related to the lectures throughout the course.

Aanbevolen materiaal

Er is geen informatie over de aanbevolen literatuur bekend

Coördinator

dr. R. Harmsen R.Harmsen@uu.nl

Docenten

Inschrijving

Let op: deze cursus is niet toegankelijk voor studenten van andere faculteiten, bijvakkers mogen zich dus niet inschrijven.

Inschrijving
Van maandag 26 januari 2026 tot en met vrijdag 6 februari 2026

Na-inschrijving
Van maandag 30 maart 2026 tot en met dinsdag 31 maart 2026

Inschrijving niet geopend
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