Global Climate Change: Economics, Science, and Policy

Lecture Notes

SES #	TOPICS	LECTURE NOTES
1	Introduction and overview	(PDF)
2	Institutions I: political and analytical organizations	(PDF - 1.0 MB)
3	Review of the mathematics of climate analysis	(PDF)
4	Climate I: past climate, and gases, aerosols and radiation	(PDF - 1.3 MB)
5	Economics primer	(PDF)
6	Climate II: dynamics of the atmosphere and oceans	(PDF - 1.1 MB)
7	Economics of the global commons	(PDF)
8	Economics I: economic growth, technology and greenhouse gas emissions	(PDF)
9	Institutions II: the international climate negotiations	(PDF)
10	Economics II: the economics of greenhouse gas emissions control	(PDF)
11	Introduction to the Toy Integrated Global System Model
12	Climate III: interaction of atmosphere, oceans and biosphere	(PDF - 1.2 MB)
13	Analysis of the benefits of greenhouse gas mitigation	(PDF)
14	Economics III: climate policy analysis	(PDF)
15	Emissions trading and tax systems	(PDF)
16	Climate machine IV: regional impacts of climate change	(PDF - 3.2 MB)
17	Review of methods of uncertainty analysis	(PDF)
18	Integrated assessment I: sensitivity and uncertainty analysis	(PDF)
19	Sea level rise and adaptation	(PDF - 2.6 MB)
20	Methods for decision under uncertainty	(PDF)
21	Integrated assessment II: deciding global effort and burden shares
22	Climate change and the Arctic region
23	Climate V: unresolved problems in climate analysis	(PDF - 2.9 MB)
24	Discussion of homework sets and the policy exercise
25	Student team presentations
26	Final summary and discussion