The course will discuss different factors contributing to global climatic change, focusing on the scientific aspects, along with the economic and socio-political implications through a combination of theory, case studies, and students' active contributions. The course will provide students with an advanced understanding of the pieces of evidence of the climate change impacts as well as the different adaptation and mitigation strategies shedding light on the environmental, societal and economic aspects. Course organization: 1. Climate change: Associated environmental impacts. 2. Climate change: Assessment of the social, economic and political implications. 3. Climate change adaptation strategies. 4. Climate change mitigation strategies. 5. Carbon sequestration as a tool for climate change mitigation: Concepts and case study example. 6. Importance of agriculture to the global mitigation efforts: Concepts and case study example. Assessment tool for the course is attendance 5 %, project presentation 35 %, and oral exam 60 %. Literature: 1. W.-Y. Chen, T. Suzuki, M. Lackner, Handbook of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation, 2nd Ed., Springer, (2017). 2. OECD, Enhancing Climate Change Mitigation Through Agriculture, OECD Publishing, (2019). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1787/e9a79226-en 3. D. Ussir, R. Lal, Carbon Sequestration for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation, Springer, (2017). 4. P. Kumar, R. K. Singh, M. Kumar, M. Rani, P. Sharma, Climate Impacts on Sustainable Natural Resource Management, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., (2022).
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