• Offered by Crawford School of Public Policy
  • ANU College ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
  • Classification Specialist
  • Course subject Crawford School of Public Policy
  • Areas of interest Environmental Studies, Policy Studies, Economics
  • Academic career PGRD
  • Course convener
    • Stephen Howes
  • Mode of delivery Online
  • Offered in Second Semester 2014
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This course will introduce students to international climate change policy. It will study the global growth of emissions, various approaches to estimating the damage of climate change and the cost of mitigation, the international framework for co-operation on climate change as it evolves, and the economics and international politics of global public good provision. On this basis, the course will go on to analyse existing approaches and the main proposed international policy and institutional options for mitigating and adapting to climate change.
 
The lecturer for this course is Dr Stephen Howes, who was the Manager of the International Work Stream for the Garnaut Climate Change Review in 2008, and who has ever since has been teaching this course and watching international negotiations and developments. He will aim to teach a course which will both expose students to the latest debates and developments in this area, and provide them with the policy tools to evaluate competing proposals.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:

Students will have:
i) an understanding of the main debates around international climate change policy;
ii) knowledge of the economic and political economy principles which can be used to assess the main global options proposed to respond to climate change;
iii) the ability to compare and critique competing proposals.

Other Information

Delivery Mode

On campus and distance education

Indicative Assessment

Short essay (20%); long essay (40%); exam (40%); seminar presentation (not assessed)

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Workload

One two- hour lecture and one one-hour tutorial a week.

Prescribed Texts

Architectures for Agreement: addressing global climate change in the post-Kyoto World edited by Joseph Aldy and Robert Stavins, 2007. Journal articles

Preliminary Reading

Journal articles, UN documents and other reports

Aldy and Stavins.

Garnaut Review, Chapters 11-13 (www.garnautreview.org.au)

Fees

Tuition fees are for the academic year indicated at the top of the page.  

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Student Contribution Band:
2
Unit value:
6 units

If you are an undergraduate student and have been offered a Commonwealth supported place, your fees are set by the Australian Government for each course. At ANU 1 EFTSL is 48 units (normally 8 x 6-unit courses). You can find your student contribution amount for each course at Fees.  Where there is a unit range displayed for this course, not all unit options below may be available.

Units EFTSL
6.00 0.12500
Domestic fee paying students
Year Fee Description
1994-2003 $1680
2014 $3582
2013 $3582
2012 $3582
2011 $3576
2010 $3570
2009 $3570
2008 $3402
2007 $3132
2006 $3084
2005 $2988
2004 $2412
International fee paying students
Year Fee
1994-2003 $3606
2014 $4146
2013 $4140
2012 $4140
2011 $4134
2010 $4134
2009 $4002
2008 $4002
2007 $3864
2006 $3864
2005 $3864
2004 $3864
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Second Semester

Class number Class start date Last day to enrol Census date Class end date Mode Of Delivery Class Summary
9059 21 Jul 2014 08 Aug 2014 31 Aug 2014 30 Oct 2014 In Person N/A

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