Climate change: Mitigation Strategies (Climate Change Pathway only)

IMPORTANT: This optional module is only available if you are studying the MSc Environmental Management (Climate Change). 

The aim of this module is to provide a critical analysis of the nature of mitigation strategies in response to climate change during the present and near-future. It also seeks to  develop a sound understanding of relationships between climate change, impacts and selection of appropriate mitigation strategies and will make use will be made of recent case-studies from developed counties, Economies in Transition (or EITs), and developing countries.

On successful completion of this module, you will be able to:

• Elucidate the threats of climate change over a range at regional and global scales
• Demonstrate a critical understanding of the breadth of mitigation approaches to offset the threats posed by climate change
• Critically assess the effectiveness of mitigation frameworks and strategies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and implications of doing nothing.

Topics covered may include: 

• The climate system: interaction and change; atmospheric, ocean, land, ice, biospheric components including human activity
• Mitigation strategies in the short- and medium-terms (pre-2030), and longer term (post-2030)
• Managing energy supply to mitigate climate change
• Industrial, agricultural and forestry-based mitigation of climate change and the role of emission targets and GHG reduction policies
• The effectiveness of current policies to address GHG emissions
• Mitigation policies and sustainable development.