Category: Summer Courses

Environmental displacement is a phenomenon with blurred boundaries, yet it is gaining increasing prominence in the migration landscape.
Its novelty and intensification in recent decades—particularly due to the negative impacts of climate change—may explain why international law is currently unable to provide a comprehensive framework for the protection of those forced to leave their homes for environmental reasons.
This inability of international law to offer full protection does not mean that there are no tools within the legal system that could be useful in pursuing that goal. Nonetheless, it is necessary to analyze international law in order to better approach this phenomenon.
The course is a collaboration between the research project PID2024-157072NB-I00, LITICLIMA, “Climate Litigation: Fighting Climate Change through National, European, and International Legal Actions”, and the project TED2021-130570B-100, ADAPTAR, “Adaptation and Climate Displaced Persons: Actions for their Protection.”

The course aims to analyse the different dimensions of climate justice. It will adopt a multidisciplinary approach and study both the historical perspective and the present and future challenges that the fight against climate change requires from the perspective of domestic, European, and international climate justice. The main objective of the course is to gain an in-depth understanding of the concept of climate justice and its relationship with the different elements of the ecological transition process. The costs of mitigation and adaptation, their distribution, and especially the impact on the most vulnerable will be addressed; and aspects such as the participation of civil society and local communities, climate activism and litigation, public-private partnerships, North-South injustices, and many other aspects that make up the concept of justice in the fight against climate change will be debated.

Extension course in ‘European Economic Policies and Taxation for the Climate Transition’
co-organized with Tax Studies Institute (Ministry of Finance), 13th and 14th of February 2023

The course addresses the economic and fiscal policies, which are the centre of the fight against climate change. The transition to a carbon-neutral European market calls for a series of adaptations in the production and consumption models. These changes require a regulatory boost, given the climate emergency. Hence, the economic policies moving towards decarbonization and, especially, the fiscal policies, are key elements in this transition at the European, national, regional, and local levels.

Summer Course “Climatechange in EUpolicies: Regulation andEconomic Impact” ( 4thto 8thJuly, 2022)

Jean Monnet Module’s in European Climate Law team presents, under the proposal of the Department of Public International Law of UNED and the organization of UNED Ávila, a one-week summer course in European regulation on climate change and its economic impact. The course has a teaching load of 30 hours (1.5 ECTs) and offers the possibility of attending in person or online (live or deferred). More information about registration and enrolment can be found in the “Program” section below*.

For students in face-to-face modality of the course, the possibility of applying for a scholarship that covers the entire price of the tuition is offered. For more information, follow the “SCHOLARSHIPS” section below*. 

This Summer’s course will address the actions developed by the EU to address the challenges of climate change in areas such as energy, transport, competition, and taxation. The fight against climate change and the transition towards a decarbonized economy and society will be the main axes of the European integration process until 2050. The EU has drawn up the most ambitious legislative and budgetary package in its history around the so-called Green Deal, which has a significant social impact and completely redesigns the way Europeans relate to each other and to the rest of the world. The lectures will address the relationship between the different EU policies that are affected in this ecological transition. 

*Currently, information on inscription, enrolment and scholarships is only available in Spanish. 

Summer Course: “European Union’s external climate action” (12^th to 16^th July, 2021) 

The course addresses the actions that the EU develops in the field of foreign policy to face the challenges presented by climate change. The fight against climate change and, in particular, the transition to a decarbonised economy and society, will be one of the two main pillars on which the European integration process will be based until 2050. 

The EU has drawn up its most ambitious legislative (and budgetary) package to date, around the so-called “Green Deal”, which will redesign the way we Europeans relate to each other and to the rest of the world in its totality. This commitment to environmental matters requires coordination with other countries actions, since climate change is a global problem that cannot be solved through unilateral strategies, which explains why the EU has included its climate agenda in domestic policies and foreign policy initiatives.  

The course’s programme covers the regulatory aspects of the Union’s external climate action, including a multidisciplinary approach to other areas related to development cooperation, migration or, for example, the economic aspects of the ecological transition.