MIT OpenCourseWare
Global Climate Change: Economics, Science, and Policy
- Instructors
- Prof. Henry Jacoby, Prof. Ronald G Prinn, Prof. Mort Webster, Travis Franck, Eunjee Lee
- Term
- Spring 2008
- Level
- Graduate
- What's inside
- 6 problem sets · 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 22 other files · 2 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 15.023J Global Climate Change: Economics, Science, and Policy, Spring 2008, Prof. Henry Jacoby, Prof. Ronald G Prinn, Prof. Mort Webster, Travis Franck, Eunjee Lee — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: none is claimed; materials are grouped by MIT's own sections. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Materials by section
Grouped by section, as MIT organized them. Not sequenced or ordered.
Lecture Notes
20 files
- Introduction and Overview Download
- Institutions I: Political and Analytical Organizations Download
- The Mathematics of Climate Modeling Download
- The Climate Machine I: Past Climate, and Gases, Aerosols and Radiation Download
- The Basics of Economics Download
- The Climate Machine II: Greenhouse Gas Exchange Rates and Dynamics of the Atmosphere and Oceans Download
- Economics of the Global Commons Download
- Economics I: Economic Growth, Technology and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Download
- Institutions II: International Climate Negotiations Download
- Economics II: The Economics of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Control Download
- The Climate Machine III: Interaction of Atmosphere, Oceans and Biosphere Download
- Analysis of the Benefits of Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Download
- Economics III: Climate Policy Analysis Download
- Emissions Trading and Tax Systems Download
- The Climate Machine IV: Regional Effects of Climate Change Download
- Methods of Uncertainty Analysis Download
- Integrated Assessment I: Sensitivity Studies and Uncertainty Analysis using the Integrated Global System Model Download
- Sea Level Rise and Adaptation Download
- Effect of Uncertainty and Learning on Decisions Download
- The Climate Machine V: Unresolved Problems in Climate Analysis Download
Assignments
8 files
- Problem Set #1 Download
- Problem Set #2 Download
- Problem Set #2 Sample Worksheet Download
- Problem Set #3 Download
- Problem Set #3 Sample Worksheet Download
- Problem Set #4 Download
- What is the Nature of the System that Determines Climate? Download
- Analysis to Inform International Discussions under the Framework Convention on Climate Change Download
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Henry Jacoby, Prof. Ronald G Prinn, Prof. Mort Webster, Travis Franck, Eunjee Lee, 15.023J Global Climate Change: Economics, Science, and Policy, Spring 2008.
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