2024/2025
Climate Change Economics
Type:
Mago-Lego
Delivered by:
Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs
When:
2, 3 module
Open to:
students of one campus
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
6
Contact hours:
32
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The course provides students with fundamentals of climate change economics. It starts with the description of scientific background of climate change and short overview of its economic meaning. After it, students will learn some economic tools and approaches to the analysis of climate change impacts, geography, trajectories and instruments of GHG emissions reduction and the history and the present pf international cooperation.
The discipline makes a special focus on the use of methods and analytical framework of environmental economics for the analysis of climate change. It also pays attention to the positions of leading countries regarding climate change policies and negotiations with revealing factors that determine these positions. The course underlines the links between climate change and other global economic challenges including those related to sustainable development goals. It also reveals the crucials gaps in international cooperation on climate change.