Carbon Taxes Alone Aren’t Good Climate Policy
To drive down tomorrow’s CO₂ emissions, governments need to subsidize fossil fuel alternatives, too.
Writing
My columns, essays, books, as well as research and teaching materials like case studies.
India in the coming 'climate G2'?
by Jonathan Camuzeaux, Thomas Sterner, and Gernot Wagner
Why Oil Giants Figured Out Carbon Costs First
Inaugural Risky Climate column
Declining CO₂ price paths
by Kent D. Daniel, Robert B. Litterman, and Gernot Wagner
Do We Really Have Only 12 Years to Avoid Climate Disaster?
By Gernot Wagner and Constantine Samaras
Highly decentralized solar geoengineering
by Jesse L. Reynolds and Gernot Wagner
Planetary Boundaries and the Anthropocene
Classifying policies by type and by rights assigned to polluters or victims.
Policy design for the Anthropocene
by Thomas Sterner et al
The Hazard of Environmental Morality
Efforts to combat climate change should be pragmatic above all else.
Prescriptivism, risk aversion, and intertemporal substitution in climate economics
by J. Paul Kelleher and Gernot Wagner
Stratospheric aerosol injection tactics and costs in the first 15 years of deployment
by Wake Smith & Gernot Wagner
The Economics of Climate Engineering
Fast, Cheap, and Imperfect
An Economic Anatomy of Optimal Climate Policy
by Juan B. Moreno-Cruz, Gernot Wagner, and David W. Keith
Recommendations for Improving the Treatment of Risk and Uncertainty by the IPCC
by Thomas Stoerk, Gernot Wagner, and Robert E.T. Ward
Fast, cheap, and imperfect? US public opinion about solar geoengineering
by Aseem Mahajan, Dustin Tingley, and Gernot Wagner
Potentially large equilibrium climate sensitivity tail uncertainty
by Gernot Wagner & Martin L. Weitzman; reply to Cox et al. (2018), Nature 553 (7688), 319-322.
Chemtrails Are Not the Geoengineering Debate We Should Be Having (Because They’re Not Real)
Around 60 percent of all social media discourse on geoengineering is conspiratorial, and belief in the conspiracy appears across party lines.
„Der Zug ist abgefahren. Es geht darum so rasch wie möglich aufzuspringen“
Gespräch mit Benjamin Enajat
Factoring in the forgotten role of renewables in CO2 emission trends using decomposition analysis
by Kristina Mohlin, Jonathan R. Camuzeaux, Adrian Muller, Marius Schneider, and Gernot Wagner
A Big-Sky Plan to Cool the Planet
Pumping aerosols into the stratosphere may buy us more time, but it’s no substitute for cutting carbon emissions—and we still don’t know enough to do it responsibly.
