POLITICS OF ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE: INTERNATIONAL TRADE PERSPECTIVE BY UNDERGRADUATE FINAL YEAR STUDENTS, 2016

 BAYERO UNIVERSITY, KANO

FACULTY OF SOCIAL AND MANAGEMENT SCINCES

DEPARTENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE

RESEARCH PRESENTATION

ON

POLITICS OF ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE: INTERNATIONAL TRADE PERSPECTIVE

BY

UNDERGRADUATE FINAL YEAR STUDENTS, 2016

SUPERVISED BY

MU’AZU MUHAMMAD YUSIF

DECEMBER, 2016

Introduction

Politics is a master science said Herbert I. Spiro, Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania, United State of America.

Whereas the name came from a discourse in political theory, but it has captured development of modern Political Science.

Spiro has observed that “as the Western Political Tradition grows it became increasingly differentiated, and this is known by changes in the vocabulary of political philosophy”.  And of course of political science in general.

Political theory Spiro noted is a great conversation and debate.  In line with this it could be seen as dialectic which does not give even the economy a monist superior importance in human activities.

From there would spring the idea of politics/political sciences beyond the American perspective of political science, to going back to Aristotelian era of politics as any human activities economics, social, environmental, religious, psychological, etc, to facilitate understanding social relations between man and nature.

This gives political science a pluralistic status as political sciences.  It justifies this, first because it is a study of everything between man and man as well as man and nature and secondly it is a science which borrows its methods from other social sciences which gives it a label as “a mad man in the market”.

Here is a Presentation of Undergraduate Research Reports 2016 on the politics of energy and climate change.

In this academic year (2015-2016) 15 students have worked on the said area, each on a different research topic.

Politics of energy and climate change is examined from perspective of development showing in that the relationship between developed and developing countries.  Thus, issues about transfer of technology, especially the climate mitigation technologies as well as the consequences on health and agriculture and on water resources in the developing countries are examined.

Other important issues are the conflicts among the people as a result of climate change, and from further international focus, the Paris deal and the future, the growth of Carbon trade and the role of World Trade Organisation in the management of energy and climate change.

The method adopted by all of them is Secondary Analysis.  That is the reformulation and critical assessment of the existing literature on the concepts of the researches to explain the research questions and the propositions of the study.

This method exposed the students to Online resources which bring back the point I raised in previous reports that in Bayero University, Kano, there is need of Online check up facilities to check, verify and capture the work which is not original especially of Postgraduate study and other contributions by academics.

 

S/N	Name and Reg. Number	Title of Porject	Brief on the Project
1	Umar Abdullahi	Challenges facing International Climate Change Politicies: Towards the Future of Climate Deal.	The Industrialised countries are major producers of climate change and yet the United Nation Agency which they control lacks the legal operational mechanism to solve the problem of climate change.
	SMS/12/POL/00005
2	Nura Jibril Adams	The Politic of Technology Transfer and Diffusion on Climate Mitigation Technologies in Developing Countries Experience.	Examines the conflict surrounding transfer of climate change mitigation technologies to developing countries.
	SMS/12/POL/00011
3	Adamu Tijjani	Politics of Climate Change and Problems of Emission: A Study of Kenya.	Shows how increased population increases emission and worsend the problems of climate change.
	SMS/12/POL/00015
4	Garba Bunyaminu	The Role of Energy in the Politics of WTO Regime.	It is an attempt to show the share of energy in International Trade of the WTO Regime and the security challenges poised between nations.
	SMS/12/POL/00036
5	Aliyu Ishaq Abdullahi	The Impact of Climate Change on Human Health in Developing Countries: Nigeria as a Case Study.	This is an explanation of how climate change is seen by increase in temperature and GHG which caused some problems of flood, heavy rain etc and resulted in diseases rate in Nigeria.
	SMS/12/POL/00050
6	Abdullahi Bala Muhammad	The Impact of Global Warming: The experience of African Countries.	Global warming affects human activities in many ways in Africa, one of which is agriculture.
	SMS/12/POL/00105
7	Maryam Abdulrashid Abubakar	The Impact of Climate Change on Water Resources: A Case Study of Oil Spillage in Niger-Delta, Nigeria.	Shows the extent of oil spillage in the Niger-Delta region and the disastrious impact on fresh water.
	SMS/12/POL/00106
8	Samira Abdullahi Salihu	Relationshsip between Energy and Agriculture.	The study shows how the fossil fuel as energy may enhance agriculture and there may be adverse relationship.
	SMS/13/POL/00486
9	Ahmed Adekunle Afolabi	Emvironmental Implications of Trade: A Case Study of GHG Emissions.	The Expansion of Trade while promotes creation of wealth also incrases GHG emissions through increased use of energy which is dangerous to humanity.
	SMS/13/POL/00497
10	Abubakar Musa Danzaki	Implication of Trade and Climate Change toward Development.	Climate change and trade influences each other as a result of human activities to meet basic needs and in turn comes to affect societal development.
	SMS/13/POL/000518
11	Muhammad Bashir Salisu	Climate Change and Development: A Case Study of Agriculture in South Africa.	What impact climate change has on development of agriculture in South Africa.  The risk of climate change affects productivity .  And in order to ensure sustainable development , climate change must be mitigated.
	SMS/13/POL/00589
12	Abdulssamad Mikail Usman	Climate Change and Conflict: A Case Study of Envronmental Induce Conflict in Sharada Industrial Area, Kano State.	The work attempts to show that industrial emissions causes conflict and sometimes migration from the area of the study.
	SMS/13/POL/00605
13		The Implicationof Climate Change on Development	A general discourse on climate change and development.
	Abubakar Bashir Ado   SMS/13/POL/00
14	Bello Kphemosi Angela SMS/13/POL/00631	The Role of WTO in Addressing Climate Change: An Analysis of Technical Barriers to Trade.	The Study is on the role of WTO environmental engagements on climate change mitigation.
15	Shehu Sale	The Role of Carbon Trade in Paris Agreement on Climate Change.	That carbon trade interests based in USA and Europe became a strong lobby in Paris Conference on Climate Change.
	SMS/13/POL/00654