DESIGNING A LOW-CARBON SOCIETY 2012

You will study fundamental knowledge both in terms of science and policies necessary to understand key issues involved in, and approaches to designing low-carbon societies, including: 1. Scientific understanding of climate change, its impacts, science and policy interface, global greenhouse gas emissions and their future projections based on different socio-economic scenarios.2. Integration of climate change policies into development in developing countries in Asia,3. Political processes of building international regime to tackle climate change, current negotiations on post-2012 climate regime and their challenges, 4. Key considerations in designing emissions trading and other important policy instruments,5. Carbon accounting and carbon management, and6. Corporate, local and national climate actions.