China’s Carbon Neutrality Goal is Good Policy and Good Politics
The second-biggest economy’s new 2060 target could be a game changer if concrete policies follow.
Festival of Economics
Trento, Italy
California Nightmare
Catastrophic fires call for rethinking suburban NIMBYism
Cities cut carbon
The pandemic has led to some obituaries for urban living, but metropolises are still the most desirable and climate-friendly places to reside
Heat kills
Weather extremes are intimately linked to even small increases in global average temperatures.
The economic case for the United States to remain in the Paris Agreement on climate change
LSE Grantham Policy Brief
Climate Alarm is Not Alarmism
New information about the link between atmospheric CO₂ and eventual global average warming bolsters the case for climate policy now
Climate Politics
Fall 2020
For Effective Climate Change Activism, Focus on Supply
To effect change, climate activists need to pursue both divestment and limiting demand for carbon emissions.
Climate Economics Nobel May Do More Harm Than Good
By Marlowe Hood/Agence France-Presse
WKO Exporttag
Covid-Klima Links
EAERE 2020
Special session in memory of Martin L. Weitzman
Uncertainties in Climate and Weather Extremes Increase the Cost of Carbon
Uncertainty is not our friend
In a Summer of Extreme Weather, Climate Costs Remain Mysterious
The economics of climate attribution are lagging behind the impacts of dangerous weather.
Availability of risky geoengineering can make an ambitious climate mitigation agreement more likely
by Adrien Fabre and Gernot Wagner
Covid-climate links
My Covid-climate thoughts organized in one place, in reverse chronological order
New York City Panel on Climate Change
City Hall Press Release
Someone's Going to Dim the Big Light
Solar geoengineering is fast, cheap, scary, and inevitable
How to Reset the US Pandemic Response
Whether the problem is COVID-19 or climate change, the market on its own will not produce a sufficient quantity of goods – like therapeutic drugs or environmentally sustainable growth – that benefit society. Capitalizing on America’s private-sector dynamism will require the state to create incentives to produce such “social goods.”
Delayed Gratification Reading Club
London, UK
