Welcome to Energy and Climate Change!
The overall objective of this course is to equip students with the systemic understanding to evaluate energy technologies, business planning and energy ...
Welcome to Energy and Climate Change!
The overall objective of this course is to equip students with the systemic understanding to evaluate energy technologies, business planning and energy policies in the context of the climate change mitigation challenge. Students will acquire a basic understanding of the fundamentals of climate physics, key elements sustainable energy system transformations and related policy processes. The course is held every Monday at SG04 501 from 10:15-13:30 pm.
Syllabus
The individual lectures will cover the following topics:
- Climate physics I: Basic concepts
- Climate physics II: Feedbacks and tipping points
- Greenhouse gas emission trends and drivers
- Energy systems: Basics and concepts
- Scenarios of the energy system transformation
- Decarbonization of energy supply and demand
- Bioenergy, carbon dioxide removal and negative emissions
- Hydrogen and synthetic efuels
- The economics of climate change
- Climate change, air pollution and other environmental impacts of energy
- International climate policy
- Energy transformation and policies for Germany and Europe
