Cheaper solar PV is key to addressing climate change

The rapidly dropping price of solar power has transformed how we think about clean energy. But it needs to still get a whole lot cheaper.

Economics Needs a Climate Revolution

With its fixation on equilibrium thinking and an exclusive focus on market factors that can be precisely measured, the neoclassical orthodoxy in economics is fundamentally unequipped to deal with today's biggest problems. Change within the discipline is underway, but it cannot come fast enough.

Fear of Geoengineering Is Really Anxiety About Cutting Carbon

Research into unproven technofixes isn’t a replacement for eliminating emissions, even if the debate over geoengineering is stuck on that concern.

Germany’s climate election

There is plenty of debate and acrimony, but there is indeed debate about policy solutions.

A To-Do List for the New Climate Activists on Exxon’s Board

After a week when three oil giants were forced to face climate urgency, a guide to what concrete change might look like.

The Climate Tipping Point We Want

The green transition comes with costs; but they are well worth it, and they pale in comparison to the costs of inaction. The ever-falling costs of renewables have not eliminated the politics of climate change. But they certainly have made our choices much easier.

Carbon Taxes Cut Emissions, Not Jobs or Economic Growth

It’s easy to see why infrastructure spending would cut emissions, while creating jobs. Carbon taxes appear to do the same.

Why the Biden Administration Should Propose Carbon Tariffs

Assessing tariffs based on the carbon content of goods is complicated, but will lead to stronger climate policy and better economic outcomes.

Infrastructure means jobs

Jobs vs. environment is an old trope whose time has passed.

How to Judge Biden’s Climate Record

To assess the effectiveness of climate policies, don’t look at today’s CO₂ emissions, instead focus on the trajectory.

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