Syllabus
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Course Code: MES-306 Course Name: Global Climate Change |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | Global climate change: Greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases: sources, trends, radiative forcing, warming potential of gases. Impacts of global warming on melting of polar ice caps and glaciers, sea level rise, weather extremes, impacts on ecosystems and human health and on coral reef bleaching | |
| 2 | Mitigation strategies for global warming; biological carbon sequestration, carbon sequestration in geological formations, role of forests in carbon sequestration; Geoengineering; Kyoto protocol, CDM and carbon trading, IPCC. | |
