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Course: 2024/2025

Climate change and market regulation

(19170)

Master in Global Sustainable Development and Global Governance (Plan: 473 - Estudio: 376)

EPC

Coordinating teacher: ANTONIONI , ALBERTO

Department assigned to the subject: Mathematics Department

Type: Electives

ECTS Credits: 3.0 ECTS

Course: 2º

Semester: 1º

Skills and learning outcomes

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Description of contents: programme

-Externalities and the problem of the commons. -Introduction to cost-benefit analysis. -The social cost of greenhouse gases emission. -The Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC). -Catastrophic and non-catastrophic damages. -Mitigation costs. -International protocols and policy designs: market-based policies and command and control policies.

Assessment System

% end-of-term-examination 50
% of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 50

Attendance and participation in class: 15 per cent
Discussion and presentation of in class. 35 per cent.  
Final exam 50 per cent.

Basic Bibliography

Betz, Regina, et al. . The carbon market challenge: preventing abuse through effective governance.. Cambridge University Press,. 2022

Additional Bibliography

Baruch-Mordo, S., et al. . "From Paris to practice: sustainable implementation of renewable energy goals." . Environmental Research Letters 14.2 : 024013.. 2019
Levine, Ross. . "Financial development and economic growth: views and agenda." . Journal of economic literature 35.2: 688-726.. 1997
Hsiang, Solomon, and Robert E. Kopp. . "An economist¿s guide to climate change science." . Journal of Economic Perspectives 32.4,: 3-32.. 2008
Narassimhan, Easwaran, et al. . Carbon pricing in practice: A review of existing emissions trading systems.. Climate Policy18.8: 967-991.. 2018
Schiederig, Tim, Frank Tietze, and Cornelius Herstatt. . "Green innovation in technology and innovation management¿an exploratory literature review.". R&d Management 42.2: 180-192. 2012
Taghizadeh-Hesary, Farhad, and Naoyuki Yoshino. . "Sustainable solutions for green financing and investment in renewable energy projects." . Energies 13.4 : 788.. 2020

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.