Climate Economics

Economic analysis of climate, climate change, and climate policy

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Climate Economics

Lecture videos

Climate science

• The greenhouse effect (10:13)
• General circulation models (16:30)
• Projected climate change (20:15)

Scenarios and emission reduction

• Sources of greenhouse gas emission (15:10)
• Kaya Identity: Past and future (23:53)
• Options for emission reduction (7:36)
• Saving energy (17:15)
• Switching fuels (22:31)
• CCS and geoengineering (15:51)
• Modelling the costs of greenhouse gas emission reduction (20:02)
• The impact of policy on abatement costs (16:47)
• The double dividend (21:21)

Policy instruments

• Intro to carbon pricing (Catie Hausman, 3:02)
• Environmental taxes (15:11)
• Tradable permits (20:26)
• Initial allocation of permits (14:26)
• Taxes v tradable permits (12:19)
• Cap and trade around the world (8:30)
• EU Emissions Trading System (26:57)
• Clean Development Mechanism (8:17)

Valuation

• Revealed preference methods (10:08)
• Travel cost method (28:53)
• Random utility models (16:39)
• Hedonic pricing (23:46)
• Stated preferences methods (9:21)
• Contingent valuation (19:54)
• Problems with CVM (30:28)
• Contingent choice (12:00)
• Benefit transfer (11:42)
• WTP v WTAC (12:11)

Impacts

• Impacts of climate change (14:30)
• Impacts and adaptation (21:38)
• How to adapt to climate change (9:31)
• Who should adapt to climate change (16:38)
• Why estimate the economic impacts of climate change (4:01)
• Methods for estimating the economic impacts of climate change (11:52)
• Estimates of the economic impacts of climate change (14:13)
• Weather shocks and climate change (7:12)
• Social cost of carbon (12:04)
• Distribution of impacts (13:38)
• The Schelling Conjecture (19:17)
• The impact of climate change on economic growth (17:13)
• Climate and development (18:02)

Climate policy

• International climate targets (16:29)
• Optimal climate policy (29:30)
• Secondary benefits (17:27)
• The Ramsey Rule (17:12)
• Hyperbolic discounting (17:46)
• Axiomatic discounting (20:16)
• Uncertainty, irreversibility and learning (15:33)
• Certainty equivalents (9:02)
• The Dismal Theorem (23:19)
• Equity weights (14:09)
• Ethics and climate policy (19:31)

International environmental agreements

• International cooperation (24:52)
• Coalition formation (15:39)
• International climate policy (49:54)
• Ozone hole and acid rain (40:44)

Recordings of live lectures

• Undergraduate
• Postgraduate

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