Der Standard: „Wir müssen endlich aufhören, Straßen zu bauen“
Gespräch mit Nora Laufer

Gespräch mit Nora Laufer
Discussion with Nora Laufer and Katharina Rogenhofer
New research shows significant economic costs of climate risks.
by Simon Dietz, James Rising, Thomas Stoerk, and Gernot Wagner
A climate economist overhauls his leaky, 200-year-old co-op.
Grüne Hamburg-Nord
Climate science and economics are inherently conservative, and that may be a factor in Monday's highly-anticipated IPCC report.
"Your leadership is urgently needed to seize the small window of opportunity that remains to limit the most catastrophic impacts of climate change now and for future generations."
Gespräch mit Lukas Sustala, NEOS Lab
Environmental & Energy Economics
Colloquio con Eugenio Occorsio
The best thing New York and other cities can do for the climate is to let more people live there.
The economist Martin Weitzman got scientists and politicians to think about the worst-case outcomes of global warming. We’re seeing them happen right now.
The rapidly dropping price of solar power has transformed how we think about clean energy. But it needs to still get a whole lot cheaper.
With its fixation on equilibrium thinking and an exclusive focus on market factors that can be precisely measured, the neoclassical orthodoxy in economics is fundamentally unequipped to deal with today's biggest problems. Change within the discipline is underway, but it cannot come fast enough.
Research into unproven technofixes isn’t a replacement for eliminating emissions, even if the debate over geoengineering is stuck on that concern.
Gespräch mit Norbert Oberndorfer
There is plenty of debate and acrimony, but there is indeed debate about policy solutions.
French Economic Association Annual Meeting
Conversation with Rob Stavins