Global climate change: economics, science, and policy

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Course syllabus

1. Introduction and overview
2. Institutions I: Political and analytical organizations
3. Climate I: Past climate, and gases, aerosols and radiation)
4. Institutions II: The international climate negotiations
5. Climate II: Dynamics of the atmosphere and oceans
6. Economics I: Economic growth, technology and GHG emissions
7. Economics II: The economics of GHG emissions control
8. Climate III: Interaction of atmosphere, oceans, and biosphere
9. Economics III Emissions trading systems and analysis of the benefits of GHG mitigation
10. Climate IV: Regional impacts of climate change
11. Economics IV: Climate policy analysis
12. Pollution-climate interactions
13. Sensitivity and uncertainty analysis
14. The Kyoto protocol and post-2012 options
15. Unresolved problems in climate analysis

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