ECON090 CM - Modeling Climate Change

A deep understanding of climate change requires exploring the topic through an interdisciplinary lens. The course will explore how economists and natural scientists model the process of climate change and its implications for society, using the most recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as a primary text. Topics include energy use, greenhouse effect, and earth’s radiative balance, global climate models, discounting, social cost of carbon, instrument choice, and adaptation and mitigation.

Prerequisites: ECON 050 CM

Offered: Every other year

Credit: 1

Course Number: ECON090 CM