Climate Change
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The official GTU curriculum for Climate Change (subject code 2721715) as prescribed for EE · Semester 2 divides the course into 5 units, covering 30 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 (2721715)Unit 1 Basics of climate change
- Science of climate change
- Natural climatic variability Global warming
- Natural and enhanced greenhouse effect
- Greenhouse gases & Carbon emissions
- Climate modelling
Unit 2 Green House Gases
- Carbon dioxide & climate change
- Methane & climate change
- Nitrous oxide & climate change
- CFCs & climate change
Unit 3 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
Unit 4 Impacts and adaptation
- 8 Causes and severity of impacts
- Vulnerability of various sectors like water resources
- energy sector
- coastal zones
- human health
- Adaptation strategies & options
Unit 5 Climate change mitigation
- GHG emission trends
- Climate change mitigation policies
- Mitigation technologies for transport
- energy sector
- Renewable and alternative energy
- Green building
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