This class provides students with a deep insight into how various multilateral institutions, plurilateral fora, as well as (financing) instruments around climate change operate: This includes of course how UNFCCC/COPs function, but also for example creation and implementation of Just Energy Transition Partnerships; how key concepts and current topics are evolving and being negotiated like around loss & damage; how the challenges of raising public and in particular private sector finance are discussed in a number of climate funds like the Green Climate Fund.