9 August 2022

NYT Climate Forward: "Fighting inflation with climate action"

By Manuela Andreoni

“For fossil fuel, most of the expense is the commodity. It’s the operating expenses, the fuel,” said Gernot Wagner, a climate economist at Columbia Business School. “With renewables, it’s the exact opposite, in the sense that it’s the solar panel initially that costs a lot. And once installed, you’re basically printing money.”

Quoted in: "Fighting inflation with climate action" by Manuela Andreoni, New York Times Climate Forward newsletter (9 August 2022).

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

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