9 February 2021

NPR Marketplace: "Fossil fuel pollution is killing 8.7 million people a year, study says"

by Scott Tong

These revelations should resonate with government policymakers around the world considering fossil fuel investments to stimulate pandemic-hit economies, said Gernot Wagner, a climate and environmental economist at New York University.
“We are doing lots of things to avoid deaths from COVID-19,” Wagner said. “One of the worst things we could be doing is stimulating our economy with measures that then lead to more deaths on the fossil fuel front.”

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

Engineering and logistical concerns add practical limitations to stratospheric aerosol injection strategies

by Miranda Hack, V. Faye McNeill, Dan Steingart, and Gernot Wagner

21 Oct 25

Batterien statt Kraftwerke

Deutschland hat es versäumt, eine konsequente Energiepolitik für die Zukunft zu machen. Stattdessen lähmt eine übervorsichtige Industriepolitik den Wandel. So bleibt man abhängig – von China und den USA.

8 Oct 25