Course Meeting Times
Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session
Calendar
| SES # | TOPICS | KEY DATES |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction and overview | |
| 2 | Institutions I: political and analytical organizations | |
| 3 | Review of the mathematics of climate analysis | |
| 4 | Climate I: past climate, and gases, aerosols and radiation | Homework 1 distributed |
| 5 | Economics primer | |
| 6 | Climate II: dynamics of the atmosphere and oceans | |
| 7 | Economics of the global commons |
Homework 1 due Homework 2 distributed |
| 8 | Economics I: economic growth, technology and greenhouse gas emissions | |
| 9 | Institutions II: the international climate negotiations | |
| 10 | Economics II: the economics of greenhouse gas emissions control | |
| 11 | Introduction to the Toy Integrated Global System Model | |
| 12 | Climate III: interaction of atmosphere, oceans and biosphere |
Homework 2 due Homework 3 distributed |
| 13 | Analysis of the benefits of greenhouse gas mitigation | |
| 14 | Economics III: climate policy analysis | |
| 15 | Emissions trading and tax systems | |
| 16 | Climate machine IV: regional impacts of climate change | |
| 17 | Review of methods of uncertainty analysis |
Homework 3 due Homework 4 distributed Policy exercise distributed |
| 18 | Integrated assessment I: sensitivity and uncertainty analysis | |
| 19 | Sea level rise and adaptation | |
| 20 | Methods for decision under uncertainty | Policy exercise: preliminary note due |
| 21 | Integrated assessment II: deciding global effort and burden shares | Homework 4 due |
| 22 | Climate change and the Arctic region | |
| 23 | Climate V: unresolved problems in climate analysis | |
| 24 | Discussion of homework sets and the policy exercise | |
| 25 | Student team presentations | Policy exercise: final memo and report due |
| 26 | Final summary and discussion |
Grading
| ACTIVITIES | PERCENTAGES |
|---|---|
| Homework (15% each) | 60% |
| Team project 1 | 10% |
| Team project 2 | 25% |
| Class participation | 5% |