# Syllabus

## Course Meeting Times

Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session

## Calendar

Course calendar.
SES # | TOPICS | KEY DATES
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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 | Homework 1 distributed
5 | Economics primer |
6 | Climate II: dynamics of the atmosphere and oceans |
7 | Economics of the global commons | Homework 1 due Homework 2 distributed
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 |
11 | Introduction to the Toy Integrated Global System Model |
12 | Climate III: interaction of atmosphere, oceans and biosphere | Homework 2 due Homework 3 distributed
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 | Homework 3 due Homework 4 distributed Policy exercise distributed
18 | Integrated assessment I: sensitivity and uncertainty analysis |
19 | Sea level rise and adaptation |
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 |
23 | Climate V: unresolved problems in climate analysis |
24 | Discussion of homework sets and the policy exercise |
25 | Student team presentations | Policy exercise: final memo and report due
26 | Final summary and discussion |

## Grading

Grading criteria.
ACTIVITIES | PERCENTAGES
--- | ---
Homework (15% each) | 60%
Team project 1 | 10%
Team project 2 | 25%
Class participation | 5%