
Lecture 3: How Should We Join Climate Change to Energy Policy?
MIT 22.04 Social Problems of Nuclear Energy, Fall 2025
Instructor: R. Scott Kemp
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Lecture explores different approaches to making energy policy in the context of climate change. Introduces cost-benefit approaches, markets, Pareto optimality, and why zero-carbon targets can be misguided.
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Instructor: R. Scott Kemp
View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/22-04j-social-problems-of-nuclear-energy-fall-2025/
YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEd-FHe0va8k
Lecture explores different approaches to making energy policy in the context of climate change. Introduces cost-benefit approaches, markets, Pareto optimality, and why zero-carbon targets can be misguided.
License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
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More courses at https://ocw.mit.edu
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