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所在平台: Coursera |
课程主页: https://www.coursera.org/learn/economics-and-policies-of-climate-change
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课程名称：气候变化经济学与政策 概述：仅仅意识到气候变化的紧迫性和重要性并不足以有效应对这一问题。为了避免最糟糕的气候后果，必须采取果断行动。那么，我们有哪些现实的选择呢？由于我们的资源有限，现在采取行动更好，还是等到技术更先进且成本更低时再行动更好？我们的减排努力需要有多大？ 这个MOOC将帮助您理解经济学家如何回答这些问题并寻找最佳行动方案。最重要的是，它将为您提供概念工具，以便您得出自己的结论。 课程的第一部分，您将学习经济学家用来确定我们应该在气候变化斗争中投资多少以及何时投资的两种主要方法。第一种方法是净现值法。在这里，社会贴现率在确定最佳政策中扮演着核心角色，通过显示未来收益和成本如何与今天的支出进行比较（“现值化”）得到比较。第二种方法则是学习综合评估模型（IAMs）如何工作。特别是，您将详细研究诺贝尔奖获得者诺德豪斯教授开发的DICE模型，这款最受欢迎的IAM模型之一，试图通过提供关于问题的科学、技术和经济的简化版本来找出最优行动方案。 MOOC的第二部分将探讨决策者可以采纳的不同经济政策类型。您将了解控制排放的不同方法，例如碳税、监管和标准制定。您还将学习到世界上最发达的排放交易市场及其对经济的影响。 这个MOOC适合希望理解气候变化经济学的人，并利用这一理解形成对我们可以依赖的政策的知情看法。除了对效用函数等基本经济概念有一定的了解外，无需特殊的先前知识。然而，我们建议在开始本课程之前参加本专业的第一门MOOC，以便对问题的物理和技术方面有一个简单而扎实的理解。 课程大纲： 1. 气候变化经济学 2. 社会贴现因子 3. DICE模型 4. 气候变化经济政策 5. 碳市场的运作方式
Name:The Economics of Climate Change
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Name:The Social Discount Factor
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Name:The DICE Model
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Name:Climate change economic policies
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Name:How do Carbon Markets work?
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Being aware of the urgency and importance of climate change is not enough to tackle it effectively. To avoid the worst climate outcomes, decisive action has to be taken. But what realistic options do we have? Since our resources are limited, is it better to act now or wait until we have more advanced and less expensive technology? How big do our abatement efforts have to be? This MOOC will help you understand how economists try to answer these questions and find the optimal course of action. Most important, it will give you the conceptual tools to draw your own conclusions. In the first part of the MOOC, you will learn about the two main approaches used by economists to determine when and how much we should invest in the fight against climate change. The first method is the net-present-value approach. Here the social discount rate plays a central role in determining optimal policy, by showing how future benefits and costs can be compared and made comparable (‘present-valued’) with expenditures today. In the second approach you will learn how Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) work. In particular, you will study in detail the strengths and weaknesses of one of the most popular IAMs, the DICE model, developed by Nobel laureate Professor Nordhaus. This model tries to figure out the optimal course of action by providing a simplified account of the science, the technology and the economics of the problem. The second part of this MOOC then explores the different types of economic policies that decision-makers can adopt. You will be introduced to different methods used to control emissions, such as carbon taxes, regulations and standard-setting. You will also learn about the most developed emissions trading markets around the world and their effects on the economy. This MOOC is for those who wish to understand the economics of climate change and use this understanding to form their own informed opinion about the policies on which we can rely to tackle it. It is not necessary to have specialized prior knowledge, apart from basic familiarity with economic concepts such as utility functions. We do suggest, however, taking the first MOOC of this specialization before starting this one in order to gain a simple but solid understanding of the physical and technological aspects of the problems.
