Best Reads in 2023
Project Syndicate
How to Assess the Outcome of COP28
Given that this year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference was hosted by a petrostate and led by a fossil-fuel CEO, climate campaigners understandably had low expectations. Yet the summit did deliver some new commitments, and there is good reason to think that they are more than just empty words.
Sonne & Stahl: "Das Jahr im Klima-Check. So gut lief's in den USA & der EU"
Mit Andreas Sator & Miranda Schreurs
Net Zero Nuclear
COP28, Dubai
The costs of “costless” climate mitigation
by Matthew J. Kotchen, James A. Rising, and Gernot Wagner
Marketplace: "OPEC+ members say they’ll cut oil production. Global markets don’t seem to believe them."
by Mitchell Hartman
What Steel Decarbonization Needs
It is both technically possible and economically feasible to eliminate almost all the carbon dioxide from iron and steel production by mid-century, thus cleaning up an industry that accounts for 10% of global emissions. But progress will not happen without a concerted policy push.
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Kitzbühel, Austria
ClimateWire/Politico Pro: "White House overhaul paves way for stricter regulations"
By Jean Chemnick
BBC World Business Report: "Australia offers Tuvalu residents climate change visas"
World Service radio
NASA GISS
New York, NY
voestalpine
Linz, Austria
Göttinger Literaturherbst
Paulinerkirche, Göttingen
Max-Planck-Institut
Göttingen, Germany
How China Can Save the World – and Itself
by Gernot Wagner & Conor Walsh
Trend: „Es wird immer billiger, nicht umweltschädigend zu leben“
Gespräch mit Josef Votzi
Capital for Good
Columbia Business School
NPR Marketplace: "More than 130 major companies press world leaders to phase out fossil fuels by 2035"
by Nova Safo
Taming Carbon
When the Price Is Right
