Lectures
- 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
- 5. Economics primer
- 6. Climate II: dynamics of the atmosphere and oceans
- 7. Economics of the global commons
- 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
- 12. Climate III: interaction of atmosphere, oceans and biosphere
- 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
- 18. Integrated assessment I: sensitivity and uncertainty analysis
- 19. Sea level rise and adaptation
- 20. Methods for decision under uncertainty
- 23. Climate V: unresolved problems in climate analysis
Global Climate Change - Lecture 10
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Lecture 10 - Economics II: the economics of greenhouse gas emissions control
Economics II: the economics of greenhouse gas emissions control (539 KB pdf)
Prof. Henry Jacoby, Prof. Ronald Prinn, Prof. Mort Webster
Global Climate Change: Economics, Science, and Policy, Spring 2008 (Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare) http://ocw.mit.edu Date accessed: 2009-04-30 License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA |
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Supplementary lecture material is listed below.1. The Role of Coal in Energy Growth and CO2 Emissions.
"The Role of Coal in Energy Growth and CO2 Emissions." Chapter 2 in The Future of Coal: Options for a Carbon-Constrained World.
(6.24 MB pdf)
2. Executive Summary, Reducing U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions: How Much at What Cost?
Executive Summary, Reducing U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions: How Much at What Cost? McKinsey & Company, 2007
(457 KB pdf)
3. The Kyoto Protocol and Developing Countries
Babiker, Mustafa, John Reilly, and Henry Jacoby. "The Kyoto Protocol and Developing Countries." MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, Report No. 56, October 1999.
(286 KB pdf)
