Is energy efficiency a good thing even with rebound?
by Inês Azevedo, Kenneth Gillingham, David Rapson, and Gernot Wagner.
Writing
My columns, essays, books, as well as research and teaching materials like case studies.
LEDs, Energy Efficiency and Consumption
LEDs alone won’t solve global warming or global poverty, but they are a step in the right direction for both.
Pay Now or Pay More Later
Economics is largely just organized common sense, and it doesn’t get much more common sense than benefit-cost analysis.
Climate change and risk management
FT Letter by Gernot Wagner and Martin L Weitzman
Recalibrating Conservation Science Incentives
by Joshua Tewksbury and Gernot Wagner
The Silver Bullet Of Climate Change Policy
If you think like an engineer climate change has dozens of challenges. If you think like an economist, it has one.
Carbon Cap and Trade
Cap and trade comes in two parts: a cap on total emissions and a system that allows trading to achieve that limit as cost-effectively as possible.
Inconvenient Uncertainties
by Gernot Wagner and Martin L. Weitzman
Air conditioning is not the enemy
Carbon pollution is.
Judge a carbon market by its cap, not its prices
The goal of emissions trading systems is to make them scarce, not to make them costly.
Gross Domestic Product: Grossly incomplete, but we can fix it
Green accounting is honest accounting
Tackling Global Warming
New York Times Sunday Dialogue
The rebound effect is overplayed
by Kenneth Gillingham, Matthew J. Kotchen, David S. Rapson, and Gernot Wagner
Cut Power Plant Pollution
No Congress? No problem. Here's what Obama can do now.
Why Bloomberg Endorsed Obama
Yes, it really is climate change, stupid.
Was Hurricane Sandy the ‘Fat Tail’ of Climate Change?
by Gernot Wagner and Martin L. Weitzman
Playing God
The climate problem, twice over: Seven billion "free riders," meet the "free drivers" of geoengineering.
Mobilizing the Private Sector: Quantity-Performance Instruments for Public Climate Funds.
by Arunabha Ghosh, Benito Müller, William Pizer, and Gernot Wagner
Don't just vote with your dollars. Vote.
New York Times Room for Debate
Rio Isn’t All Lost
Carbon emissions have increased by 50 percent since the first Earth Summit meeting in Rio de Janeiro, but the rapid development of wind and solar energy offers hope.