Course: Climate economics for engineers | Moodle

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- Announcements Forum
Mitigation game
21-27 September: GHG sources and climate scenarios
- ENV-724 Climate Economics Session 1: GHG sources and climate scenarios URL
- IPCC AR5 Uncertainty Guidance Note File
- IPCC WG1 AR5 Technical Summary File
  
  Technical Summary of the 5th Assessment Report of the IPCC, Working Group 1
- Slides for Climate Economics Session 1 GHGs & Climate Scenarios File
- Session 1 (Vöhringer): GHGs and Climate Scenarios URL
  
  Recording of the 1st Session of ENV-724 (Fall 2020)
28 September - 4 October
5 October - 11 October
- Slides for Climate Economics Session 3: Impacts of Climate Change part II File
- Intergenerational valuation issues part 1 File
  
  Lecture (commented slides)
- Intergenerational valuation issues part 2 File
  
  Lecture (commented slides)
- Assessing the impacts of climate change for Switzerland File
  
  Final report of the CCImpacts project
- Costs and benefits of climate change in Switzerland File
  
  Academic paper presenting the results of the CCImpacts project
- Forum for discussions on topics of session 3 (Impacts part II)
- ENV-724 Session 3 Part 1 Vöhringer International aggregation of impacts URL
  
  Link to recording of session 3 (part 1)
- ENV-724 Session 3 Part 2 Discussion on long-term discounting URL
  
  Link to recording of session 3 (part 2)
- ENV-724 Session 3 Part 3 Vöhringer Uncertainties in climate impact estimates URL
  
  Link to recording of session 3 (part 3)
12 October - 18 October
- ENV-724 Marc Vielle Session 4 ep.1 Definition of Adaptation URL
  
  Link to recording of session 4 ep.1
- ENV-724 Marc Vielle Session 4 ep.2 INDCs and Adaptation URL
  
  Link to recording of session 4 ep.2
- Slides on Adaptation to climate Change File
  
  Slides on Adaptation to climate Change
- Paper AD-DICE implementation of adaptation in the DICE model File
  
  An academic paper in which the authors add into the DICE model an explicit representation of Adaptation
- ENV-724 Marc Vielle Session 4 ep.3 DICE and Adaptation URL
  
  Link to recording of session 4 ep.3
- A coupled GIS and CGE Analysis of Sea Level Rise File
  
  This academic paper develops a modelling framework that links a computable general equilibrium model with a cost-benefit analysis approach at local level using geographical information system tools to assess the physical and economic consequences of sea-level rise in the twenty-first century.
- ENV-724 Marc Vielle Session 4 ep.4 Sea Level Rise and Adaptation URL
  
  Link to recording of session 4 ep.4
19 October - 25 October
- ENV-724 Climate Economics Session 5 Vöhringer URL
  
  Recording of the session of 21 October 2020
- Climate Economics, Session 5: Mitigation File
  
  Lecture slides (except for Economics of Innovation)
- Headline statements of the IPCC Special Report on 1.5 degrees File
- Issues in the mitigation of climate change Forum
  
  Discussion forum
26 October - 1 November
- ENV-724 Climate Economics Session 6 Vöhringer URL
  
  Link to the recording of the session
- Climate Economics Session 6 Vöhringer File
  
  lecture slides
- International Climate Policy File
  
  Slides of an MSc level lecture by Frank Vöhringer (date: 8 April 2020)
  Note: Since April some countries have updated their NDCs or made other important announcements concerning their mitigation targets.
- International climate policy, part 1: negotiations under the UNFCCC File
  
  lecture (commented slides) by Frank Vöhringer, recorded on 8 April 2020
- International climate policy, part 2: Nationally Determined Contributions File
  
  lecture (commented slides) by Frank Vöhringer, recorded on 8 April 2020
  Note: Since April, some countries have updated their NDCs or made other important announcements about mitigation targets.
- International climate policy, part 3: mitigation as a public good File
  
  Lecture (commented slides) by Frank Vöhringer, recorded on 8 April 2020
- International climate policy, part 4: equity and fairness File
  
  lecture (commented slides) by Frank Vöhringer, recorded on 8 April 2020
- UNEP emissions gap report 2019 File
- International Climate Policy Forum
  
  Discussion forum
2 November - 8 November
Instruments for climate policy: voluntary approaches, economic instruments, regulation
- Instruments - slides File
  
  Lecture slides on instruments of environmental, in particular climate policy
- Instruments of climate policy - part 1 URL
- Instruments of climate policy - part 2 URL
9 November - 15 November
Swiss climate policy - instruments and results
16 November - 22 November
- Climate Economics Session 9 Vöhringer (SRM, preferences) File
  
  Lecture slides
- ENV-724 Session 9 Vöhringer URL
  
  Recording of the session
- Economics of Innovation File
  
  Lecture slides of a lecture in the MSc programme from April 2020
- Economics of Innovation part 1 (introduction) File
  
  commented slides
- Economics of Innovation part 2 File
  
  commented slides
- Is mitigation of climate change compatible with economic growth? Forum
  
  Discussion forum
- Does mitigation of climate change require a different economic system? Forum
  
  Discussion forum
23 November - 29 November
30 November - 6 December
- Schedule for the final presentations session (exam) File
- Questions, discussions and additions concerning the final presentations Forum

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