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, and my current preoccupations. Follow me on Bluesky, Mastodon, or LinkedIn, check out my academic CV, or join my rapidly growing newsletter.
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Curbed/New York Magazine
Financial Times
The Guardian
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Project Syndicate
Science
Columbia CaseWorks
Climate Policy
Nature Climate Change
Palgrave Companion to Harvard Economics
Big in Austria 🎻⛷️⛰️😎
Election in the US, so it's the climate economist's turn to explain what's at stake.
Bonus feature: how the narrator calls Arnold "the other Austro-American"
„Für Pessimismus ist es zu spät“, hat der Klimaökonom Gernot…
https://on.orf.at/video/14249758/15752509/erfolgreicher-oesterreicher-in-den-usa-gernot-wagner-im-portraetFun watching someone good at and passionate about their job. This was Peter's 800th Yamaha Clavinova digital piano repair.
Peter's screwdriver is from 1993.
He took the circus boards with him to ensure they gets properly recycled.
5 years in, piano works & sounds as good as new.
Big in Austria 🎻⛰️🇦🇹 😎
Gestern in New York, morgen Abend im ORF
https://tv.orf.at/program/orf2/thema466.html
tv.ORF.at: Doppelmord im Mühlviertel | Reinhold Messner über den eigenen…
https://tv.orf.at/program/orf2/thema466.htmlNovember 4th, 2024
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Collected Essays
Jannuary 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!
