Essays

Using financial logic to price carbon emissions

Calculations of expected climate damages vary widely, but a new model treats carbon dioxide as a risky asset with a negative payoff. Authors Adam Bauer and Gernot Wagner explain how it works.

Don’t Slam the Door on Inexpensive Chinese Electric Vehicles

by Gernot Wagner & Conor Walsh

A European Clean Growth Mindset

Talking Climate with Katharine Hayhoe

Clean, green & electric with Gernot Wagner

The Ukraine War Blew Up the World’s Energy Economy

And the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act is surprisingly well-designed to deal with the fallout.

Taming Carbon

When the Price Is Right

We Can’t Prevent All Wildfires. But We Can Learn From the Ones Burning Now.

There’s Only One Way to Fix New York’s Traffic Gridlock

by Charles Komanoff and Gernot Wagner

Get tax credits right to make clean hydrogen a boon not a boondoggle

3 ways to spend Biden’s clean-energy windfall faster

Build, build, build.