China’s Carbon Neutrality Goal is Good Policy and Good Politics

The second-biggest economy’s new 2060 target could be a game changer if concrete policies follow.

California Nightmare

Catastrophic fires call for rethinking suburban NIMBYism

Cities cut carbon

The pandemic has led to some obituaries for urban living, but metropolises are still the most desirable and climate-friendly places to reside

Heat kills

Weather extremes are intimately linked to even small increases in global average temperatures.

Climate Alarm is Not Alarmism

New information about the link between atmospheric CO₂ and eventual global average warming bolsters the case for climate policy now

For Effective Climate Change Activism, Focus on Supply

To effect change, climate activists need to pursue both divestment and limiting demand for carbon emissions.

In a Summer of Extreme Weather, Climate Costs Remain Mysterious

The economics of climate attribution are lagging behind the impacts of dangerous weather.

Someone’s Going to Dim the Big Light

Solar geoengineering is fast, cheap, scary, and inevitable

How to Reset the US Pandemic Response

Whether the problem is COVID-19 or climate change, the market on its own will not produce a sufficient quantity of goods – like therapeutic drugs or environmentally sustainable growth – that benefit society. Capitalizing on America’s private-sector dynamism will require the state to create incentives to produce such “social goods.”

The Leadership Failure That Will Cost Us Everything

If COVID-19 has taught us anything, it is that delaying prudent policymaking does not merely result in higher marginal costs down the road. Rather, it puts us on an entirely different trajectory – one that all too easily can end in catastrophe.

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