Climate Change Solutions

About this programme

The course brings up a suite of possible actions to counteract the causes of human-affected (anthropogenic) climate change. You will discuss the driving forces and possibilities to mitigate climate-affecting emissions through political steering, technical solutions and socio-economical changes. The course is developed in close collaboration with the University of California, where it was first launched. The course targets actions and solutions to reach climate neutrality and covers: • The climate system and climate change • Natural science, socio-economic and political causes of the ongoing climate change • The effects of climate change on the earth system and on society from the perspectives of natural science, socio-economy and politics. • Local and global activities and solutions to reach a climate neutral and sustainable society and analyses of both positive and negative co-effects of proposed activities • The responsibilities of the individual and of society for justice and equality in relation to environmental issues The course Climate Change Solutions is a collaboration spanning across faculties, coordinated by the department of Environmental Science, in close collaboration with other departments in the Bolin Centre for Climate Research such as the departments of Geological Sciences, Physical Geography, Meteorology, the Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC, and others in BIG), and with equally contributing instructors from the Humanities and Social Sciences, including from departments of Political Science, Law, the Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Ec