Environmental Policy and Climate Change
Coursera
EDHEC Business School course taught by Lionel Martellini and Riccardo Rebonato covering the social discount rate, the DICE integrated assessment model, mitigation versus adaptation, carbon taxes, and cap-and-trade markets. Prepares learners to evaluate the economic trade-offs behind climate policy choices.
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wri.org
World Resources Institute (WRI) is a global environmental policy research organization that offers data-driven analysis, reports, and interactive tools on climate, energy, forests, water, and sustainable development to inform policy and business decisions.
ipcc.ch
Official site of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, publishing authoritative climate science assessments and policy-relevant summaries. It hosts Assessment Reports and Working Group contributions, Summaries for Policymakers, methodological guidance, data resources, and news.
Climate Action Tracker
Independent scientific analysis by Climate Analytics and NewClimate Institute that rates national climate targets and policies against the Paris Agreement's 1.5°C goal. Country profiles show how to judge whether a government's pledges and actual policies are ambitious enough.
Climate Change Mitigation in Developing Countries
University of Cape Town course on how developing countries pursue economic growth while cutting greenhouse gas emissions. Using cases from Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru and South Africa, it covers facilitated research-policy processes, energy modeling, scenario building and climate policy design.
Global Environmental Management
Technical University of Denmark course on global environmental trends and how environments are managed, with cases from Greenland, China and Denmark. Covers water supply, wastewater and solid waste, stormwater, soil management, groundwater protection and integrated water resources management, comparing management approaches.
This Week in Carbon
Weekly interview podcast hosted by Edward Smith on carbon markets, covering compliance and voluntary market news, carbon removal purchasing, project finance and regional policy developments, helping listeners follow how carbon pricing and regulation evolve in practice.