Students will learn about climate change and energy policy from multiple perspectives includingsocial economic, technological, scientific, and behavioural aspects and their interdependence.The course will also consider the report of the Intergovernmental Panel onClimate Change on mitigation and applied cost/benefit analysis of Climate Change. Formatwill be discussion, supplemented with lecture segments and applied workshops asneeded. This course will make occasional use the popular open source statistical computerlanguage R for practical workshops