Courses:

Course Info

• Course Number / Code:
• 12.848J (Spring 2008) 
• Course Title:
• Global Climate Change: Economics, Science, and Policy 
• Course Level:
• Graduate 
• Offered by :
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  Massachusetts, United States  
• Department:
• Sloan School of Management 
• Course Instructor(s):
• Prof. Henry Jacoby
  Prof. Ronald Prinn
  Prof. Mort Webster
  
  Teaching Assistants:
  Travis Franck
  Eunjee Lee 
• Course Introduction:
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  15.023J / 12.848J / ESD.128J Global Climate Change: Economics, Science, and Policy
  
  
  
  

  Spring 2008

  
  
  

  
  
  

  Course Highlights

  
  
  

  
  
  15.023J / 12.848J / ESD.128J Global Climate Change: Economics, Science, and Policy
  
  
  
  

  Spring 2008

  
  
  

  

  Comparison of likely temperature increases over 1990-2100 with no policy (left), and stabilization of greenhouse gases at 550pm CO₂ equivalents (right). (Figure from the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change.)

  
  
  

  Course Description

  
  
  

  This class introduces scientific, economic, and ecological issues underlying the threat of global climate change, and the institutions engaged in negotiating an international response. It also develops an integrated approach to analysis of climate change processes, and assessment of proposed policy measures, drawing on research and model development within the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change.

  
  
  

  Technical Requirements

  
  
  

  Special software is required to use some of the files in this course: xls.