Climate Solutions: Science and Society

Catalog description

This course is designed to introduce you to the most recent science of climate change and its impacts in the coming decades, and will focus on solutions (technical, social, political, and economic) that are being or could be implemented to avert the worst consequences of this human caused problem. The course discusses the scientific foundation for a goal of net zero greenhouse gas emissions, and then explores how this might be achieved, and how different theories of change, equity and justice might lead to different conceptions of what an optimal solution might look like. The final deliverable asks your team to assess a climate solution in your industry and the barriers to, and opportunities for, more rapid implementation of that solution.