Anthropogenic climate change perhaps is the biggest challenge that humanity faces today. The United Nations declared that climate change is a global emergency that goes beyond national borders. Climate change affects the national economies throughout the world and governments are challenged by its consequences. This course looks at how the policy can solve the problems around climate change impacts, and the design of mitigation and adaptation plans. All available scientific evidence shows that Central Asia is one of the most vulnerable regions to this change.
The course builds on key concepts from environmental and natural resource economics but also draws from other fields in economics. The course is based on published articles and grey literature for country-relevant case studies. The course consists of three parts: 1) The impact of climate change in the world and the Central Asian region; 2) Economics tools for climate change and 3) Current and future country policies with respect to climate change. The aim of the course is to equip students with tools to assess climate policy.
- Teachers: Rahat Sabyrbekov