The choice of historical data product dominates climate uncertainty in projections of climate impacts in a 2-degree world
by Kevin Schwarzwald, Nathan Lenssen, Radley Horton, Alia Bonanno, and Gernot Wagner
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Geothermal
Columbia Business School Climate Knowledge Initiative
Beliefs, evidence, and climate action
by Mark Freeman, Ben Groom, Frikk Nesje, and Gernot Wagner
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.
Cementing Carbon
Constructing the Low-Carbon Future
Projects (14 of 15)
Climate Race
Collected Essays. Bilingual English & German edition.
Geoengineering: The Gamble
"An important read." (The Sunday Times) — "A stark warning." (The Guardian)
Stadt, Land, Klima
Warum wir nur mit einem urbanen Leben die Erde retten
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.”
But Will the Planet Notice?
Der Rest der Welt
Ein Reiseführer für überzeugte Daheimbleiber
Research
Published research in journals from Nature, Science, and PNAS to field journals across several disciplines, plus current working papers.
Teaching
Course syllabi, Columbia CaseWorks case studies, Financial Times mini-case studies, and other teaching materials.
I (co-)teach Business and Climate Change, the most popular elective at Columbia Business School taken by 500 of 800 MBAs each year. I also teach Climate Policy, Climate Risk, and a travel course on Green Industrial Policy in Europe. (All are offered in the spring term, and most open via the usual cross registration channels.)
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.
Essays
Essays, op-eds, opinion essays, and other writings in publications like the FT, NYT, WaPo, New York Magazine, Salon, OPEC Fund Magazine(!), and many others.
Speaking
Keynotes, seminars, and other speaking engagements. For speaking inquires, please contact Leigh Bureau.
Climate Knowledge Initiative
Columbia Business School initiative with the mission to translate rigorous analysis into actionable insights and help build consensus among key decision-makers, while unapologetically flagging where business and public interests diverge.
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