I’m a climate economist at Columbia Business School, co-author of Climate Shock and author, most recently, of Geoengineering: the Gamble. Here you find my research, writings, and speaking engagements, my academic CV, and my current preoccupations. Follow me on Bluesky, Mastodon, or LinkedIn, or let me email you with the latest.
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Financial Times
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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
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Columbia CaseWorks
Climate Policy
Nature Climate Change
Palgrave Companion to Harvard Economics
Hey, look, a well-designed, functioning public elevator in New York City. Congestion Relief already paying dividends.
Yup, this too is climate finance.
In which I wish Mr. Trump luck:
“Good luck,” said Gernot Wagner, a climate economist at Columbia Business School.
A president has little control over global oil markets, economists…
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/23/climate/trump-climate-energy-costs.html?unlocked_article_code=1.cE4.xQ5b.L2QzpP9CuZ8g&smid=url-shareOne cost of “costless” climate mitigation: spellcheck
The IPCC and leading economic models have different ideas about…
https://gwagner.com/costlessORF Thema
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Collected Essays
January 2024 (Austria, Germany, Switzerland)
Bilingual English & German edition.
188 pages, paperback
11,5 x 19 cm
ISBN 978-3-7011-0528-1
€17.50
"An important read." (The Sunday Times) — "A stark warning." (The Guardian)
24 September 2021 (UK), 5 November 2021 (US & Canada)
192 pages
138 x 216 mm / 5 x 9 in
ISBN Hardback 9781509543052
ISBN Paperback 9781509543069
$19.95
Ein Liebesbrief an die Stadt, einer ans Land, und einer ans Klima
Warum wir nur mit einem urbanen Leben die Erde retten
Brandstätter Verlag
8. Februar 2021
ISBN 978-3-7106-0508-6
Format 13,5 x 21 cm
Hardcover, 192 Seiten
Top 15 Financial Times McKinsey Business Book of 2015, Austria's Natural Science Book of 2017
Read the NYT op-ed, the infamous pop quiz, our Salon feature, or Foreign Affairs and Atlantic essays. Watch the TEDx talk: “From Climate Shock to Geoengineering.”
Now Available in Paperback
How smart economics can — must — save the world.
If you want to understand how an economist thinks about the biggest challenge our planet has ever stumbled up against, this book is an awfully good place to start!
