Environmental Science 562 - Clean Energy&Climate Policy/MA

Over the past 20 years, Massachusetts has sustained itself as a leader in clean energy policy, which has led to market development, job and economic growth, and reductions in greenhouse gas and other emissions. This course will provide direct insights into the brief history of these policy developments, including policy objectives, legislative and regulatory activities, tradeoffs of costs and benefits, analytical methods to establish program design, and stakeholder perspectives and engagement. The course will explore the market and economic development and challenges that have resulted from the policy, and explore the economic tradeoffs and distributional impacts that may result. Lastly, the course will consider the current energy and climate issues in Massachusetts and the latest policy development and proposals that will continue to define our energy future.

Open to junior and senior NRC, GEOLOGY, GEOGRAPH, Earth Systems students and ECO grad students.