Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Global Inequalities and the Just Transition
From this four-week course, you’ll have developed your understanding of green technologies and also explored the concept of a just transition and some of the trade-offs that carbon zero will involve. With this knowledge, you’ll be able to reflect on your own responsibilities and awareness.
4 weeks, 4 hours per week
Mandy Sadan
Professor of Global Sustainable Development
The University of Warwick
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Assess different perspectives on the benefits and costs of using advanced technologies to tackle climate change
- Collaborate with other learners to support individual and group learning about energy transitions in different contexts, including the personal contexts of individual learners on the course
- Debate the relationship between global and local interests when using advanced technologies to tackle climate change
- Discuss their own attitudes towards green technologies and how these may change during the course
- Reflect on the reasons why some parts of the world become vulnerable to exploitative resource extraction
- Identify areas of technology that are dependent upon Rare Earth Elements in their everyday lives and to understand the costs and benefits of reliance on that technology
- Reflect on the interconnectedness of issues of global inequality and how these may be maintained or challenged in decisions relating to tackling climate change
Syllabus
- Understanding of the concept of Just Transition as an important aspect of the development of carbon zero futures
- What are rare earths and how are they use? A critical reflection of how rare earths are used in key technologies of the just transition
- Critical reflections on our use of REE. Key focus on their use in smart phones and digital technologies that young people use in their everyday lives
- What’s the problem? Overview of issues with the global commodity chain of REE
- Case Study - REE Extraction in Myanmar: Life Stories
- Critical Reflection - Do we need to change the conversation about Zero Carbon Futures for a Planetary Just Transition?
Issued on 10th December 2023
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