Global Warming and Climate Change
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Global Warming and Climate Change Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Global Warming and Climate Change (subject code 3161312) as prescribed for Env. Engg · Semester 6 divides the course into 5 units, covering 36 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3161312)Unit 1 Basics of Climate Change
- Science of climate change
- Natural climatic variability Global warming
- Natural and enhanced greenhouse effect
- Greenhouse gases & Carbon emissions
Unit 2 Green House Gases
- Carbon dioxide & climate change
- Methane & climate change
- Nitrous oxide & climate change
- CFCs & climate change 4 6 Climate Change Modeling: Elements of weather and climate modeling
- Basic equation and dynamics of atmosphere
- Climate variability and climate change
- Elementary idea of Global climate models
- Comparison of various IPCC reports
- important findings of IPCC AR5, Impacts of climate change – Global and India
Unit 3 Basics of Global Warming
- Global warming and climate change
- Way and means
- Carbon emission
- stabilizing Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Concentrations
- Global Carbon Cycle
Unit 4 Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS)
- Carbon Capture in Cement manufacture
- Petrochemical Industries
- Modalities and Procedures
- Fossil Power Generation with CCS: Policy
- Development for Technology and Deployment Geological Storage of Carbon Dioxide: CO2 Properties and Geological Storage
- CO2 Storage through Enhanced Hydrocarbon Recovery
- Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR)
- Enhanced Coal Bed Methane Recovery
- Shale Gas, storage Options
Unit 5 Policies and legislation
- International and national legislative frameworks- UNFCCC
- IPCC and Kyoto protocol: Scientific and implementation bodies of Kyoto
- Kyoto mechanisms- CDM, Joint implementation and Emission Trading
- Decisions of Conference of Parties (COP) and Meeting of Parties (MOP)
- Carbon markets- CERs
- Environmental Economics- Issues include the costs and benefits of alternative environmental policies to deal with air pollution
- water quality
- toxic substances
- solid waste, and global warming
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