ENV 701b () / 2024-2025

Seminar on Climate Change Economics

Credits: 3

Spring 2025: M,W, 10:30-11:50, Kroon 321
 

 

The seminar reviews the link between the economy, GHG emissions, climate change, ecosystem change, and economic outcomes. The course then focuses on how to design policies to encourage efficient mitigation and adaptation choices. There are many uncertainties and value judgements that make managing climate change both complicated and controversial. The course encourages active debate about all these different factors.