The objective is to provide the foundations for understanding and evaluation of benefits and shortcomings of different measures and policies for environmental protection. A further objective is to provide insights in the current state of the climate debate both at the national and international levels.
I.) Reasons of environmental problems, externalitities, introduction asymmetric information; II.) Function and effects of environmental and energy policy instruments (relativ and absolute restrictions, energy taxes and trading systems); III.) International climate policy (Introduction and effects of global warming, counteractions (mitigation options, strategies), nationale und internationale climate policies)