25 August 2022

NYT: Pace of Climate Change Sends Economists Back to Drawing Board

By Lydia DePillis

Quotes in NYT article on the economists' policy approaches to climate change, together with Bill Nordhaus, Bob Kopp, Heather Boushey, Rhiana Gunn-Wright, Ryan Kellogg, Jim Stock, Madison Condon, Sarah Bloom Raskin, and Carter Price:

In his Nobel speech in 2018, Dr. Nordhaus pegged the “optimal” carbon price — that is, the shared economic burden caused by each ton of emissions — at $43 in 2020. Gernot Wagner, a climate economist at Columbia Business School, called it a “woeful underestimate of the true cost” — noting that the prize committee’s home country already taxed carbon at $120 per ton.

In: "Pace of Climate Change Sends Economists Back to Drawing Board" by Lydia DePillis, New York Times (25 August 2022).

Also see, for example: "Climate Economics Nobel May Do More Harm Than Good" by Marlowe Hood, Agence France-Presse (6 July 2020). And e.g.: "Economics Needs a Climate Revolution" with Tom Brookes, Project Syndicate (28 June 2021).

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

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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.

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Getting to Greener Steel

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