The economic analysis of climate change explains how economic thinking, tools and techniques are applied to calculate the magnitude and distribution of damage caused by climate change. It also informs the policies and approaches for mitigation and adaptation to climate change from global to household scales. This topic is also inclusive of alternative economic approaches, including ecological economics and degrowth.
Economic analysis of climate change is considered challenging as it is a long-term problem and has substantial distributional issues within and across countries. Furthermore, it engages with uncertainty about the physical damages of climate changes, human responses, and future socioeconomic development.
Sub-topics within the economic analysis concept are the economic impacts of climate change, as well as the economics of climate change mitigation.
Climate change scenario and Climate change mitigation scenarios
Effects of climate change may last a long time, such as sea level rise which will not be reversed for thousands of years. The long time scales and uncertainty associated with global warming have led analysts to develop "scenarios" of future environmental, social and economic changes. These scenarios can help governments understand the potential consequences of their decisions.
One of the economic aspects of climate change is producing scenarios of future economic development. Future economic developments can, for example, affect how vulnerable society is to future climate change, what the future impacts of climate change might be, as well as the level of future GHG emissions.
In scenario analysis, scenarios are developed that are based on differing assumptions of future development patterns. An example of this are the shared socioeconomic pathways produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). These project a wide range of possible future emissions levels.
Some analysts have developed scenarios that project a continuation of current policies into the future.
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Le rapport Stern sur l’économie du changement climatique (en anglais Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change) est un compte rendu sur l'effet du changement climatique et du réchauffement global sur la planète rédigé par l'économiste Nicholas Stern pour le gouvernement du Royaume-Uni. Publié le , ce rapport de plus de est le premier rapport financé par un gouvernement sur le réchauffement climatique mené par un économiste et non par un climatologue.
The economic analysis of climate change explains how economic thinking, tools and techniques are applied to calculate the magnitude and distribution of damage caused by climate change. It also informs the policies and approaches for mitigation and adaptation to climate change from global to household scales. This topic is also inclusive of alternative economic approaches, including ecological economics and degrowth. Economic analysis of climate change is considered challenging as it is a long-term problem and has substantial distributional issues within and across countries.
This doctoral course provides an introduction to optimal control covering fundamental theory, numerical implementation and problem formulation for applications.
The course equips students with a comprehensive scientific understanding of climate change covering a wide range of topics from physical principles, historical climate change, greenhouse gas emissions
The course introduces non economists to the economic analysis of climate change: economic activity and climate change, estimation of climate impacts, optimal mitigation and adaptation, national and in
Introduit des modèles d'évaluation intégrée, combinant des modèles économiques et climatiques pour simuler des trajectoires et des scénarios politiques futurs.
Explore les distributions de probabilité pour les variables aléatoires dans les études sur la pollution atmosphérique et le changement climatique, couvrant les statistiques descriptives et inférentielles.
Explore l'importance du changement climatique pour les scientifiques de la neige, couvrant les définitions, les effets de la continentalité et de l'altitude, la classification de la couverture de neige et l'état de la cryosphère.