Batterien statt Kraftwerke
Deutschland hat es versäumt, eine konsequente Energiepolitik für die Zukunft zu machen. Stattdessen lähmt eine übervorsichtige Industriepolitik den Wandel. So bleibt man abhängig – von China und den USA.
I’m a climate economist at Columbia Business School and author of six books, including Climate Shock and, most recently, Geoengineering: the Gamble. Here you find my research, teaching, writing, speaking, and other current preoccupations.
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Featured Posts (5 of 1,091)
Getting to Greener Steel
Coalbed methane is an underappreciated problem of global steel production. While cutting methane emissions in the steel supply chain will not produce green steel overnight, it could reduce the sector’s emissions by the equivalent of a billion tons of carbon annually, and at little cost.
Early Investment in Decarbonization Can Help Save Trillions in Climate Costs
A net-zero world by 2100 is likely inevitable, but the next decade will be critical for securing a livable future.
Co-production as an Economically Feasible Pathway to Economy-Wide Electrification
by Cody E. Finke, Theodore G. Albertson, Ian McKay, Aravindh Rajan, Eric McFarland, Annelise Gill-Wiehl, Daniel M. Kammen, and Gernot Wagner
How does a multinational become a B Corp?
Financial Times business school teaching case study
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Teaching
Course syllabi, Columbia Business School case studies, teaching-related writings, and other teaching materials.
Columns
My monthly, globally syndicated column for Project Syndicate, translated into a dozen languages, and my earlier bi-weekly Risky Climate column for Bloomberg Green.
Geoengineering: The Gamble
"An important read." (The Sunday Times) — "A stark warning." (The Guardian)
Climate Shock
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.”