Innovation uncertainty shapes divergent pathways toward decarbonization
by Theo Moers, Davide Fioriti, and Gernot Wagner
I’m a climate economist at Columbia Business School and author of six books, including Climate Shock and Geoengineering: the Gamble. Here you find my research, teaching, writing, speaking, and current preoccupations.
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Featured Posts (5 of 1,189)
A global dataset for coal-to-renewables cost crossover analysis
by Lilly Loghmani, Haoran Fu, and Gernot Wagner
A bias-corrected & downscaled massive ensemble to diagnose uncertainty in climate impact projections
by Kevin Schwarzwald, Nathan Lenssen, Radley Horton, and Gernot Wagner
The welfare cost of delayed climate policy
by Kent D. Daniel, Robert B. Litterman, and Gernot Wagner
Decarbonizing Cement
Columbia Business School Climate Knowledge Initiative
Projects (7 of 15)
Research
Published research in journals from Nature, Science, and PNAS to field journals across several disciplines—all focused, in one form or another, on the space from climate risk to climate tech, with finance and policy as the fundamental drivers. Plus: current working papers.
Teaching
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 regular 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.
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.”
Climate Knowledge Initiative
Columbia Business School initiative with the mission to conduct rigorous techno-economic analyses and turn them into actionable, business-relevant insights.
Audio & Video
Audio and video of radio and TV appearances, recorded talks, and other clips.