home_image3home_image1home_image2home_image5home_image7


 

Environment News:


Dutch Report on IPC Errors

July 6, 2010

Statement of IPCC on Glaciers

Fourth IPCC Report:

 BBC IPCC analysis

*China cashes in

CAFÉ in Congress

$25 Million Prize for CO2

Ocean burial of CO2 OK

Next time order a short Latte

*WSJ: Take my emissions, please

Innovations pump new life


Global warming:

“we need to wake up”

Global Warming

An Inconvenient truth

NYT: Talking Points

*The Climate Divide (NYT)

Winners and losers

*Poor Nations Bear Brunt

The California Effect

IPPC May Report Mitigation

http://feedroom.speedera.net/static.feedroom.com/t_assets/20070410/c81193d31e9b99d7f0475c8d7ed7beb32009758d.jpg
The Power of Green
The Greening of Geopolitics
Click to watch the video

Vanity Fair Lexus Virtual Green Eco Living

 


Pigou Club Manifesto

Discount rates

Carbon tax trumps cap & trade

BBC guide to climate change

 

_42524535_laun

Link to BBC coverage of IPCC 4

 

Environmental Economics   Econ 3850                  Fall 2010

 

Office Hours (please check for weekly updates) Calendar

 

Required texts:

Field, Barry and Martha (2009) Introduction to Environmental Economics 5tth edition MGraw-Hill, New York 0073375762

World Bank (2009) World Development Report 2010, Development and Climate Change World Bank, Washington DC, online or paper 0821379879

United Nations (2008) Human Development Report 2007/2008 Fighting Climate

Change Palgrave-Macmillan NY (online or paper: 0230547049)

Recommended (some required reading):

Hanley, Shogren & White (2007) Environmental Economics in theory and practice, Palgrave

                MacMillan,London, 033397137X.  [HSW]

Heal, Geoffrey (2000) Nature and the Marketplace: Capturing the Value of Ecosystem Services, Island Press, Washington D.C.

 

 

Topics Outline and Readings Course Syllabus

 

I. Environmental Economics and Issues *required readings*

 

1.     Climate change challenges: what to do and who should do it?

*SuperFreakonomics chapter 5 on global cooling:

Commonwealth club talk (video)

*F&F on global warming pp. 438-50   Discussion question set #1

The 2006 Stern Review: *Exec Summary   *BBC story  *At a glance

*W. Nordhaus comments on Stern Review (NBER WP #12741)

Copenhagen Consensus 2004 on Climate Change

(see summary of the Cline paper + comments + his reply ).

Economics of Climate Change (RFF paper)

 

2. Future Generations and the poor: Ethical and distributional issues

Singer (2002) Chapter 1  and *Chapter 2 reading  printing (smaller file)

*RFF Discounting benefits of Climate change mitigation pp. 6-14 

Debates over discount rates   Heal N&M Chapter 2  smaller file

The Coase theorem  A Pigou Tax (user fees)   Heal Chapter 1

 

3. Emissions Costs and benefits: finding optimal emission levels 

F&F Chapters 5-11   Discussion Question Set #2

Figure 3 Gains from Technical Change

 

4. Market Based Pollution control strategies: emission charges vs. TDPs

(aka cap and trade)  F&F Chapters 12 & 13

 

5. International Environmental Issues: **F&F Chapters 19-21.

Copenhagen Consensus 2004 on Climate Change  (see Cline & Manne)

LSE CEP No nonsense Climate Change Policy

 

6. International Environmental Treaties: Negotiations and Bargaining

 

*S. Barrett (2004) Montreal vs. Kyoto: International Cooperation

Peter Singer   “One Atmosphere”   Stavins (2005) Beyond Kyoto

Kolstad and Bren (2003) Designing International Agreements  China Signs On

Hanley et. al Chapter 7 Strategic Interaction

McKibbin and Wilcoxen (2002) Climate Change After Kyoto

 

7. Science of Climate change: anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions

 

W. Ruddimen (2005) How did Humans first alter Climate? Scientific American

IPCC Website  Uncertainty Guidance  Climate Change Impacts IPCC 2007 Summary

UNEP    U.S. EPA 

 

8. Climate Change presentations and readings from IPCC May report:

 

*McKibbin&Wilcoxen (2002) Climate Change After Kyoto *Stavins (2005) Beyond Kyoto

*S. Barrett (2004) Montreal vs. Kyoto: International Cooperation Barrett (2007)

The 2006 Stern Review: Part IV pages 14-16 

IPCC (2007a) or Alley, Richard. et al. “Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis.” 2-5-07. Pp 8-10.

IPCC (2007b) Badger, Neil. et al. “Climate Change 2007: Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability.” 4-6-07.Pp. 7-10 and 17-18.

IPCC May Report computes cost of Climate Fix (Wash Post)

Friedman Video  The Power of Green and “Power of Green” (article)

Apanah, Clive Sea Level Increase 

Diedre Gouley “Montreal vs. Kyoto”

Ryan McFarland “Australia and California”   California CC plan

M. Colletti “Extreme Weather”  Netherlands  Ramparts

Cassandra Bodytko “Species Loss” 

NYT (2007) Carbon Currency (10 NE states plan to cap CO2)

LA Times UN Climate Plan Called Unrealistic

WP (2007 IPCC Panel Computes Cost to Fix Global Warming

Copenhagen: Cline’s Summary  Opponents Summary  Cline’s Reply

NY Going Green (Bloomberg plan)

McKinsey Cost of CO2 abatement  html version


 

Required Text (make sure yours has the 4th edition cover shown at right):

Field, Barry and Martha Field (2005) Environmental Economics 4th ed.

McGraw Hill, NY 0073137513 [referred to as F&F below]

 

Online resources: working with graphs  web links  Projects Web Page

 

Recommended (some required reading): (UP: University Press)

 

Singer, Peter (2002) One World: the Ethics of Globalization, Yale UP (paper).

Heal, Geoffrey (2000) Nature and the Marketplace: Capturing the Value of

Ecosystem Services, Island Press, Washington D.C. (Heal)

Hanley, Shogren & White (2001) Introduction to Environmental Economics,

(HSW) Oxford UP, NY. 0-19-877595-4

World Bank, World Development Report 2003: Sustainable Development in a

Dynamic World  [cited as WDR03] World Bank, Oxford UP

 

 

 

Class Materials:


Calendar

 

 

 

GlobalEmissionsRace

 

 

51pyN7nEcUL__BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg