There’s Only One Way to Fix New York’s Traffic Gridlock
by Charles Komanoff and Gernot Wagner
How to Think About Climate-Tech Solutions
To think that technology will save us from climate change is to invite riskier behavior, or moral hazard. Whether a climate technology creates new problems has little to do with the solution, and everything to do with us.
rbbKultur: "Ist die Welt noch zu Retten?"
Gespräch mit Anja Herzog
Economist Sustainability Week: "Weathering the storm—measuring and managing climate-related financial risks"
Washington, DC
Science: "US benefit-cost analysis requires revision"
Howard et al. (2023) Science 380 (6647).
Weimer School
West Palm Beach, Florida
Semafor: "What a default means for clean energy"
by Tim McDonnell
Tagesspiegel: „Das moralische Risiko ist ein riesiges Problem“
Gespräch mit Ruth Ciesinger
Montréal Climate Summit
Montréal, Canada
Climate × Data
Columbia Business School
ZDF aspekte: Klimadystopien
Leipziger Buchmesse 2023
Will the Banking Busts Hurt Clean Tech?
Rather than impeding the clean-energy race, the recent collapse of the US start-up community's go-to bank offers valuable lessons for managing the public-private minuet that the net-zero transition requires. The doomsayers are missing the bigger picture.
Jerusalem Post: "Drastic cut in climate pollution is best path to economic growth - study"
by Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman
Yale Climate Connections: "Drastic climate action is the best course for economic growth, new study finds"
by Dana Nuccitelli
Europe Must Tax Brown and Subsidize Green
The US Inflation Reduction Act is a landmark legislative package that should be welcomed around the world, despite its putatively protectionist features. Owing to the positive learning-by-doing spillovers that follow from green subsidies, Europe and the rest of the world ultimately will benefit, too.
Econ Free Lunch
Columbia Business School