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
Chronicle of Philanthropy letter: Economics shows need for more action
Letter to the Editor
Foreign Policy: Sorry, Nature Isn’t Returning
Don’t Touch Your Face podcast
franknews: Ignoring Reality
Interview with Tatti Ribeiro
NYU WAGTalks: Climate and Covid
NYU Wagner
Nein zur „Verschrottungsprämie“
Offener Brief von GLOBAL 2000, VCÖ, WWF Österreich, Sigrid Stagl, Karl Aiginger und Gernot Wagner an die österreichische Bundesregierung
The Leadership Failure That Will Cost Us Everything
If COVID-19 has taught us anything, it is that delaying prudent policymaking does not merely result in higher marginal costs down the road. Rather, it puts us on an entirely different trajectory – one that all too easily can end in catastrophe.
American Lung Association, et al. v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, et al., 9th Circuit
Amicus Brief
