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 preoccupations.
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China’s Solar PV installations dropped 85 percent in June after a planned subsidy phase-out. But far from a retreat from renewables, the country's energy policy reforms reflect an increasingly mature and competitive solar industry.
If political conditions in the United States and elsewhere require a rebranding of technologies formerly known as “climate tech,” so be it. The larger economic, technological, and geopolitical forces propelling everyone toward cleaner energy remain as strong as ever.
The YEARS Project mini-documentary
Financial Times business school teaching case study
by Romain Fillon, Manuel Linsenmeier and Gernot Wagner
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Course syllabi, Columbia Business School case studies, teaching-related writings, and other teaching materials.
My monthly, globally syndicated column for Project Syndicate, translated into a dozen languages, and my earlier bi-weekly Risky Climate column for Bloomberg Green.
"An important read." (The Sunday Times) — "A stark warning." (The Guardian)
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.”