Environmental Economics

Environmental economics is a powerful and comprehensive approach to understanding, assessing, and addressing the world’s most pressing environmental and sustainability challenges. This course, “Environmental Economics,” provides training in the principles, conceptual frameworks, and applications of environmental economics. The course will help you develop and analyze climate policy and energy policy, and assess sustainability policy and practice. You will begin by exploring the key concepts of

• Understand key concepts like market failures and externalities in relation to the environment
• Learn how environmental economics is used to create and evaluate sustainability policies
• Explore methods of valuing environmental goods and services that are not typically sold in markets
• Learn economic approaches to assessing the global transition to renewable energy and climate policies aimed at limiting global temperature increases