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This course identifies the key issues and challenges confronting policymakers, civil society, and business leaders in global energy. It focuses on how oil, natural gas, coal, and electricity markets are organized and function, and on the major energy end-use sectors of transportation, buildings, and industry. Students will examine the sustainability challenges arising from current energy production and use, with a focus on the energy-climate change link. Students will evaluate the range of technology and policy options that could resolve these sustainability challenges, while considering government and private sector roles, regulatory and governance implications, geopolitical factors, technology trade-offs and commercialization challenges, and economic effects. Students will also assess the role and importance of emerging economies, in particular energy access in the poorest countries.