8 November 2023

NASA GISS

New York, NY

"Climate Risks, Uncertainties, and Opportunities"
1 pm to 2:15 pm — Hybrid
GISS Lunch Seminar

Negative climatic tipping points are all too real. So are the positive, socio-economic ones. Columbia Business School climate economist Gernot Wagner will try to make sense of the relative risks and uncertainties of unmitigated climate change as captured by social cost of carbon estimates on the one hand, and of the trillion-dollar business opportunities of the global clean-energy race on the other.

Seminar info.

Video: "Sublime: Cleaning up cement, one electron at a time"

The YEARS Project mini-documentary

8 Jul 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

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