Climate Change: Underlying Drivers and Potential Solutions

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In Climate Change: Underlying Drivers and Potential Solutions, students will explore major sources of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, understand drivers to reduce GHG emissions (including voluntary and mandatory mechanisms), assess the effectiveness of various GHG reduction efforts, evaluate available GHG reduction technologies, and review various U.S. government initiatives to accelerate GHG reduction efforts. At the conclusion of the course, students should have a thorough grounding in climate change and be able to understand the causes of climate change, potential solutions, and the economic and legal drivers of climate change causes and solutions.