Climate Risks, Uncertainties, and Opportunities
Columbia Business School Reunion
Using financial logic to price carbon emissions
Calculations of expected climate damages vary widely, but a new model treats carbon dioxide as a risky asset with a negative payoff. Authors Adam Bauer and Gernot Wagner explain how it works.
Heating up history: The 90s, a missed opportunity for climate change
Xennials Podcast with Charlotte Kan
Don’t Slam the Door on Inexpensive Chinese Electric Vehicles
by Gernot Wagner & Conor Walsh
Carbon Dioxide as a Risky Asset
by Adam Michael Bauer, Cristian Proistosescu, and Gernot Wagner
Christian Science Monitor: "Tesla news looks grim. But the bigger picture for EVs is a bright one."
by Stephanie Hanes
Ausschuss für Umwelt- und Ressourcenökonomie (AURÖ): "Carbon Dioxide as a Risky Asset"
Leipzig, Germany
Averting Climate Catastrophe Requires Economic Growth
Improving energy efficiency is not enough for advocates of degrowth, who espouse energy sufficiency as the best way to fight climate change. But their argument is absurd: using limited inputs more efficiently is the definition of economic productivity – which, in turn, boosts growth.
NPR: "Startups want to geoengineer a cooler planet. With few rules, experts see big risks"
by Julia Simon
CNBC: "Climate change could cost Americans born in 2024 nearly $500,000 in their lifetime"
by Annie Nova
Marketplace: "What to expect from Tesla ahead of quarterly results"
by Mitchell Hartman
Business & Society: Climate Change
Columbia Business School
The Right Response to China’s Electric-Vehicle Subsidies
by Gernot Wagner & Shang-Jin Wei
Energy Transition Show: Fossilflation
Conversation with Chris Nelder
Carbon Adjustment Tax
Conversation with Shiva Rajgopal and Aniket Shah
