20 October 2022

Comments on US Natural Capital Accounting Strategy

OMB-2022-0009

Formal comments submitted in response to Request for Information To Support the Development of a Strategic Plan on Statistics for Environmental-Economic Decisions (87 FR 51450):

"Comments in response to the Strategic Plan on Statistics for Environmental-Economic Decisions" (PDF), joint with Geoffrey M. Heal and Shivaram Rajgopal, Columbia Business School (19 October 2022).
"Joint Comments of economists and associated experts on the Draft National Strategy to Develop Statistics for Environmental-economic Decisions" (PDF), joint with Partha Dasgupta, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Tony Smith et al (20 October 2022).

Related: "The High Stakes of Climate-Risk Accounting" by Gernot Wagner & Tom Brookes, Project Syndicate (28 September 2022).

Batterien statt Kraftwerke

Deutschland hat es versäumt, eine konsequente Energiepolitik für die Zukunft zu machen. Stattdessen lähmt eine übervorsichtige Industriepolitik den Wandel. So bleibt man abhängig – von China und den USA.

8 Oct 25

Co-production as an Economically Feasible Pathway to Economy-Wide Electrification

by Cody E. Finke, Theodore G. Albertson, Ian McKay, Aravindh Rajan, Eric McFarland, Annelise Gill-Wiehl, Daniel M. Kammen, and Gernot Wagner

10 Sep 25

Getting to Greener Steel

Coalbed methane is an underappreciated problem of global steel production. While cutting methane emissions in the steel supply chain will not produce green steel overnight, it could reduce the sector’s emissions by the equivalent of a billion tons of carbon annually, and at little cost.

25 Sep 25