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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Curbed/New York Magazine
Financial Times
Financial Times
Project Syndicate
Project Syndicate
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Science
Working Paper
Columbia CaseWorks
Columbia CaseWorks
Columbia CaseWorks
Solar power is so cheap that Texas's "free-market" approach favors solar, wind, and increasingly also storage (utility-scale batteries!) above fossil power sources.
For more, read: How States Like Texas Are Driving the Clean Energy Boom in the Trump Era
https://business.columbia.edu/insights/climate/texas-clean-energy-boom-trump-era
Earth’s 10 Hottest Years on Record Are the Last 10, and these 10 will be among the coolest years this century
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/climate/global-temperatures-wmo-report.html
A report from the World Meteorological Organization confirms that 2024…
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/climate/global-temperatures-wmo-report.htmlORF 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 the Year 2015
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!
