There’s Only One Way to Fix New York’s Traffic Gridlock

And it's actually happening.

How to Think About Climate-Tech Solutions

To think that technology will save us from climate change is to invite riskier behavior, or moral hazard. Whether a climate technology creates new problems has little to do with the solution, and everything to do with us.

Get tax credits right to make clean hydrogen a boon not a boondoggle

Will the Banking Busts Hurt Clean Tech?

Rather than impeding the clean-energy race, the recent collapse of the US start-up community's go-to bank offers valuable lessons for managing the public-private minuet that the net-zero transition requires. The doomsayers are missing the bigger picture.

Europe Must Tax Brown and Subsidize Green

The US Inflation Reduction Act is a landmark legislative package that should be welcomed around the world, despite its putatively protectionist features. Owing to the positive learning-by-doing spillovers that follow from green subsidies, Europe and the rest of the world ultimately will benefit, too.

3 ways to spend Biden’s clean-energy windfall faster

Build, build, build.

Can geoengineering slow climate change? We need research to find out.

Geoengineering research flights are a good federal investment

Our City Could Become One of the World’s Greenest, but It Won’t Be Easy

Spoiler: It's actually happening, and practice shows it's cheaper than most think.

Realism About Techno-Optimism

Speeding up the adoption of already proven and scalable technologies, and exposing the many hidden costs associated with fossil fuels, is a necessary goal. Achieving it will require new policies to guide investments in the right direction, and techno-optimists ought to be the loudest advocates.

Davos produktiv für das Klima nutzen

In Davos treffen sich die Menschen, die das Geld und die Macht haben, wirklich etwas für das Klima zu bewegen: zum Beispiel, indem sie dringend nötige Investitionen in neue Technologien forcieren, oder indem sie die noch teure Technik als erste anwenden. Sie können es sich leisten.

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