Climate change is the most critical and urgent issue facing humanity. Our collective legacy will be defined by the following challenges:

• How to keep populations and infrastructure safe from extreme weather events.
• How to coordinate international diplomatic efforts to mitigate ecological disaster.
• How to enhance or simply maintain human health and living standards.
• How to link activities from public and commercial sectors, and from diverse academic disciplines, to address common challenges in the resilience and sustainability of global living systems.

On this course you will study modules that tackle issues such as international politics and globalisation, sustainability and development, crisis governance, and putting climate science into practice. You will graduate prepared to become an agent of change capable of embedding sustainable, critically informed practices into your career. Your training will enable public and private sector organisations to survive and thrive because they have a command of science, politics and policy.

Who should study this programme?

Our MA Climate Change Politics and Policy degree is for graduates who aspire to gain the skills and knowledge to build a career developing solutions to the most pressing environmental challenges, wherever they are in the world. It is suitable for students from a wide range of social science backgrounds with an interest in sustainability and climate change issues, with a view to further research or employment.

It is underpinned by research insights from our STEER centre, the UK's largest dedicated centre for sustainable energy research, where we pioneer global energy and economic modelling strategies to develop and deliver the clean energy transition and international standards our graduates will use in their future careers.