Economics of Climate Change

In 2nd semester of the 2019-20 school-year, I was assigned to teach a one semester economics course. In the fall of 2019, youth-led action on climate change protests garnered a lot of attention globally. On my school's campus, students organized a class walk-out and march around the campus to draw attention to the need for more climate action. In the follow up of that, a group of students and teachers started meeting to explore ways in which the school could take more action, and a student and teacher committee was formed to explore the school's carbon footprint. In view of this student attention around climate action, I decided to focus the economics elective course on the economics of climate change.