Carbon footprint , Carbon Taxes and Emissions trading

Climate change is our ultimate challenge ,challenge of survival of mankind.

Governments all over the world have accepted that man made emissions. namely anthropogenic emissions are responsible for climate change

Climate scientists all over the world have expressed concern about climate change and advised governments to act upon it.

Though a school of climate change deniers exist,near consensus is in favour of human induced climate change crisis

Agreements about reducing emissions are discussed and the issue of detailing remains controversial

To understand the debate of climate change ,key concepts like carbon footprint, carbon taxes,emissions trading ,cap and trade ,carbon offsets should be internalised

This course is an introductory course and easy to understand course designed for everyone interested in environmental and climate change issues

This course will empower the students to understand and apply how carbon footprint calculations are done

Students would be exposed to the policy discussions around climate change especially proposals like carbon taxes and cap and trade scheme adopted by several governments to combat climate change

It will be a fun course and extremely rewarding course giving tremendous insights about the issues

Lectures include

Carbon foot print introduction in context of climate change

Carbon footprint calculations for a family

Carbon footprint calculations for industry

Carbon taxes and climate change

Cap and trade scheme

Carbon offsets