25 September 2020

Festival of Economics

Trento, Italy

Climate shock: the economic consequences of a hotter planet
Gernot Wagner
introduced by Eugenio Occorsio

What we know – and what economists can quantify – is bad enough and should have prompted much more ambitious climate policy a long time ago. What we don't know – the known unknowns and unknown unknowns – by and large point in one and only one direction: to more ambitious climate action still.

25 September 2020, 20:30-21:30 (Central European Time)

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Getting to Greener Steel

Coalbed methane is an underappreciated problem of global steel production. While cutting methane emissions in the steel supply chain will not produce green steel overnight, it could reduce the sector’s emissions by the equivalent of a billion tons of carbon annually, and at little cost.

25 Sep 25

Early Investment in Decarbonization Can Help Save Trillions in Climate Costs

A net-zero world by 2100 is likely inevitable, but the next decade will be critical for securing a livable future.

10 Sep 25

Co-production as an Economically Feasible Pathway to Economy-Wide Electrification

by Cody E. Finke, Theodore G. Albertson, Ian McKay, Aravindh Rajan, Eric McFarland, Annelise Gill-Wiehl, Daniel M. Kammen, and Gernot Wagner

10 Sep 25