Course Title: “Sustainable Development and Climate Change Mitigation”
Instructor: Hooman Farzaneh
Level: Graduate/Undergraduate
Prerequisite: No basic knowledge is assumed, but interest in the topics is vital.
Assessment Methods: 60% participation, 40% assignments/Quizzes
Course Description:
With growing recognition of the signs of a global climate emergency, a unique window ofopportunity has opened to raise ambitions to mitigate and build resilience to climate change
while addressing other sustainability challenges across the Asia-Pacific region, especially inJapan. A potentially particularly important agent of change is young people. The emergenceof student-led global movement for climate justice seen in many parts of the world is alreadybeginning to push decision-makers to do more to protect the climate and achieve asustainable future. There is nonetheless more that can be done to equip students withknowledge and skills needed for transformative changes. This course aims to enhance student
capacities for civic engagement on climate issues and their interrelationships with other areasof sustainable development. The course curriculum will draw chiefly from resources andmaterials developed by Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) and Kyushu
University, highlighting current activities and initiatives both in Japan as well as at theinternational level.
Expected outcomes of proposed activities include:• Enhanced student understanding about international policy trends on climate, energy andsustainable development•Increased awareness about the need for interdisciplinary responses to climate change andsustainable development challenges
Course Format
Through a combination of lectures and hands-on exercises, participants will be introduced tokey policies and initiatives that can address climate change and sustainable development.
They will also gain insights into how these can be used to inform strategic actions addressing
climate change and sustainability challenges. Course content is structured around three mainpillars:
1- Overview of climate change science and sustainable development
2- International climate policy: targets, strategies, and implementation
3- Climate Change and the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development

Course activities are facilitated through lectures, readings, participatory discussion, and inclass exercises, including: Discussions: Each lesson will have discussion questions clearly identified in the lesson
content. Students are to comment on these questions to earn their participation
grade for this category.
 Quizzes: Each lesson will have an associated quiz that is due upon its completion.
Course Materials:(Lecture notes, homework sets, literature data sets, software, etc.) will be made available fordownload during the semester on the course webpage.
Course Outline
Lecturers
Week 1

Lecture topic

Hooman Farzaneh-Introduction to the course

Matthew Hengesbaugh-How has climate change affected your life?

Week 2Tim Ferraro

Science and impacts of climate change

Week 3

Eric Zusman-International climate negotiations: from Kyoto to Paris and beyond

Nanda Kumar Janardhanan-Co-innovation for low-carbon technologies in Asia and the PacificWeek 4

Hooman Farzaneh

Climate co-benefits assessment, a quantitative approach

Week 5Fernando Ortiz-Moya-The role of sub-national and local government in implementation

Aditi Khodke-The importance of individual efforts in climate action

Simon Hoiberg Olsen-Rationalities that inform policy choices for sustainable development

Matthew Hengesbaugh-Multistakeholder engagement in advancing climate action

Eric Zusman-Strengthening the science- policy interface

Hooman Farzaneh-Summarizing main points and reflections on future action

Week 6
Week 7

Matthew Hengesbaugh

lecturers for the first semester of 2022
Lecturer

Affiliation

Hooman Farzaneh

Kyushu University, Japan

Matthew Hengesbaugh

Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), JapanTim Ferraro

Waseda University, Japan

Eric Zusman

Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Japan

Aditi Khodke

Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Japan

Simon Hoiberg Olsen

Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Japan

Fernando Ortiz-Moya

Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Japan

Nanda Kumar Janardhanan

Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Japan

Hooman Farzaneh
Hooman Farzaneh is associate professor and head of the Energy and Environmental Systems(EES) laboratory at the Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Engineering Sciences (IGSES),Kyushu University, Japan. He is particularly interested in issues related to quantitative andqualitative analysis and focusing on policy implementations designed to tackle air pollution
problems at both regional and local scales. Prior to joining Kyushu University, Hooman
worked at the Institute of Advanced Energy, Kyoto University and the United Nations
University. Dr. Farzaneh has more than fifteen years of experience teaching energy-sciencerelated subjects at various universities in Iran and Japan. He has received prestigious
research awards from the Hitachi Global Foundation (2019-2020) and the Asia-PacificNetwork (2017-2019) together with a scientific research grant from the Japan Society forPromotion of Science (2016-2019) for his research on multiple benefits assessment of theLow emission development strategies in Asian cities. His recent books include: "Aligning
Climate Change and Sustainable Development Policies in Asia-2021", "Energy Systems
Modeling Principles and Applications- 2019" and "Devising a Clean Energy Strategy in Asiancities-2018".

Tim Ferraro
Tim Ferraro worked as a meteorologist for the US government from 1999 to 2007. In Spain,
he spent four years working on weather advisories and forecasts in an office whose area ofresponsibility spanned the Baltic Sea in the north to the Suez Canal in the south. He spent
another four years forecasting in Japan, where in addition to normal weather duties, heworked on tropical weather forecast dissemination dealing with the threat from typhoons.
He completed a B.A. In History with University of Maryland University College, then aM.S.Ed. At Temple University Japan. He has been working for the past seven years atWaseda University in Tokyo. His meteorological experience in Europe and Asia fueled hisinterest in worldwide climate change impacts. He believes the acceleration of climate

change warrants much higher priority in university level education and he constantly strives
to integrate such information into lesson plans for his students.

Eric Zusman
Eric Zusman is a senior policy researcher/area leader at the Institute for Global
Environmental Studies in Hayama, Japan. Dr. Zusman holds a bachelor’s degree in Mandarin
Chinese from Rutgers University, a dual Master’s Degree in public policy and Asian studies
from the University of Texas at Austin and a Ph.D. in political science from the University ofCalifornia, Los Angeles. For much of the past two decades he has conducted research on
environmental issues in Asia. This has included working with China’s Yellow River
Conservancy Commission, the Chinese Research Academy on Environmental Science,
Woodrow Wilson Center’s China Environment Forum as well as Taiwan’s Academia Sinica.
He has published books and articles on water scarcity, air pollution regulation,
environmental law, multilevel governance, sustainability transitions, low carbon
development and the Sustainable Development Goals. He is currently serving as a leadauthor for the sixth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(Chapter 17).

Aditi Khodke
Ms. Aditi Khodke is a policy researcher at the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies(IGES). She conducts research on policy-driven accelerated sustainability transitions andmanages the 1.5-Degree Lifestyles project in five countries. She leads training on urban
climate resilience and action at the Asia Pacific Mayors Academy for Sustainable Urban
Development. Aditi holds two master's degrees in sustainability science and sustainableurban development from the United Nations University and the University of Oxford, andis a licensed architect.

Simon Hoiberg Olsen
Simon is from Denmark and currently works as a senior policy researcher for IGES. He works
on the SDGs, civic engagement, and governance for sustainable development. He has aMasters Degree in Southeast Asian Studies from University of Copenhagen and a PhD fromthe Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy at the Central European University,
Budapest/Vienna. Simon has worked in this field since 2006. Outside of work he examines thequestion of sustainability from an individual and community perspective. When he doesn’t
work in his garden, he likes to play with his daughter and learn about traditional Japanesetime-framing.

Fernando Ortiz-Moya
Fernando Ortiz-Moya is an architect and urban planner with a training in human geography.
His research focuses on global transformations of urban systems, and particularly on
shrinking cities, analyzing the responses given in different countries to the problems
generated by decay. In studying shrinking cities, Fernando has also approached them froma cinematic perspective, analyzing how the film media portrays the ongoing changes of ourbuilt environment. His more recent work explores urban-based solutions to confront
climate change. Fernando is currently a Policy Researcher at the Institute for Global
Environmental Strategies (IGES) in Japan. Before joining IGES, he held a position at theUniversity of Nottingham Ningbo, China. He has a Doctorate in Architecture from theUniversity of Tokyo, an MSc in Urban Studies from the University of Edinburgh, and anMArch in Architecture and Urban Planning from the Technical University of Madrid.

Matthew Hengesbaugh
Matthew Hengesbaugh is a Project Researcher supporting IGES's Integrated Sustainability
Governance Centre with action research on the 2030 Development Agenda. Mr. Hengesbaugh
has worked extensively in the Asia-Pacific region advocating and delivering sustainable
development policy objectives since 2006, over which time he has advised and consulted with
the United Nations, including the International Labour Organization and the United Nations
Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) on issues including
climate change, green jobs, green economy, and sustainable consumption and production. Hereceived his M.A. from University of Trento, Italy, where as an Erasmus Mundus scholar hestudied Local Economic Development. In addition, he also holds a M.A. in International
Relations from the University of Wollongong, Australia, as well as B.A.s in Psychology andAnthropology from the University of Santa Cruz, California.

Nanda Kumar Janardhanan
Dr. Janardhanan is an energy and climate professional with policy research, market research
and academic experience in the fields of energy policy, energy geopolitics, climate
mitigation, air pollution and nuclear energy. He has worked with leading think tanks,universities and the private sector both in India and Japan, including the International
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the International Centre for Theoretical Physics. He
served as instructor for training programmes on Nuclar Energy Management by theInternational Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the International Centre for TheoreticalPhysics, and also formerly associated with Massachussets Institute of Technolgy (MIT) asFellow in the Climate Co-Lab.