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Here's our current climate conundrum: The climate crisis is the single biggest challenge facing the planet, renewable energy is cheaper than fossil fuels in most areas of the world, yet society is struggling to both regulate and incentivize the global reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. This course offers an in-depth look at how diverse levers, from carbon markets to legislative and regulatory mandates to grassroots movements, are accelerating the adoption of climate solutions. The course begins with the origins of international climate policy in the Kyoto and Paris Agreements, which have created an international consensus around national carbon targets. We look at how the development of both regulated and voluntary carbon markets offer potentially significant means of meeting net zero goals, the former by setting a regional price on carbon as compliance markets take off around the world, the latter by financing technological advancement and providing capital flows for unfunded climate projects in the Global South. In parallel, we explore how a range of policy measures from air and water regulations to state mandates for battery storage, energy efficiency, and renewable energy to federal tax incentives have bent the curve on domestic carbon emissions. We look at how new trade policies based on carbon intensity have the potential to create a virtuous circle across supply chains. And we evaluate the role that investors, organized labor, consumers and grassroots movements have played in much of this work. Lastly, the course covers how technology is increasingly enabling decarbonization mechanisms (eg through digital monitoring of the environment) and how our growing understanding of the carbon cycle, including sophisticated nature-based and engineered carbon removal solutions, is opening a whole new sector of climate tech and transition investment. The course will be taught from the perspective of long-time practitioners and will include case studies and visiting entrepreneurs and policy makers.