How individual actions can combat climate change

Personal efforts make a difference when they gather momentum across society, says a climate economist

How I Cut My Use of Fossil Fuels

We asked people steeped in climate and renewable-energy issues how they reduced their personal carbon footprints

Lawmakers Need to Do Whatever It Takes to Price Carbon

No policy should be excluded based on purist economic or environmentalist principles

For Effective Climate Policy, the First Step is the Hardest

After more than three decades of trying, Austria moves to tax carbon.

We Need to Talk About Geoengineering

Although climate change is primarily caused by excess greenhouse-gas emissions, there are many links in the chain between economic activities and the real-world effects of planetary warming. Each of these can be addressed in different ways, and all options should at least be on the table.

Is it economists’ fault?

Biases inherent to the way economics is typically practiced by consultants is slowing meaningful progress on fighting climate change.

Costly tipping points

New research shows significant economic costs of climate risks.

Conservative climate science

Climate science and economics are inherently conservative, and that may be a factor in Monday's highly-anticipated IPCC report.

The planet needs more New Yorkers

The best thing New York and other cities can do for the climate is to let more people live there.

Nightmare Climate Scenarios

The economist Martin Weitzman got scientists and politicians to think about the worst-case outcomes of global warming. We’re seeing them happen right now.

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