| 1 |
Introduction and overview |
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| 2 |
Institutions I: political and analytical organizations |
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| 3 |
Review of the mathematics of climate analysis |
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| 4 |
Climate I: past climate, and gases, aerosols and radiation |
Homework 1 distributed |
| 5 |
Economics primer |
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| 6 |
Climate II: dynamics of the atmosphere and oceans |
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| 7 |
Economics of the global commons |
Homework 1 due
Homework 2 distributed
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| 8 |
Economics I: economic growth, technology and greenhouse gas emissions |
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| 9 |
Institutions II: the international climate negotiations |
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| 10 |
Economics II: the economics of greenhouse gas emissions control |
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| 11 |
Introduction to the Toy Integrated Global System Model |
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| 12 |
Climate III: interaction of atmosphere, oceans and biosphere |
Homework 2 due
Homework 3 distributed
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| 13 |
Analysis of the benefits of greenhouse gas mitigation |
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| 14 |
Economics III: climate policy analysis |
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| 15 |
Emissions trading and tax systems |
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| 16 |
Climate machine IV: regional impacts of climate change |
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| 17 |
Review of methods of uncertainty analysis |
Homework 3 due
Homework 4 distributed
Policy exercise distributed
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| 18 |
Integrated assessment I: sensitivity and uncertainty analysis |
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| 19 |
Sea level rise and adaptation |
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| 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 |
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| 23 |
Climate V: unresolved problems in climate analysis |
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| 24 |
Discussion of homework sets and the policy exercise |
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| 25 |
Student team presentations |
Policy exercise: final memo and report due |
| 26 |
Final summary and discussion |
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