Project Syndicate
The green transition comes with costs; but they are well worth it, and they pale in comparison to the costs of inaction. The ever-falling costs of renewables have not eliminated the politics of climate change. But they certainly have made our choices much easier.
November 22nd, 2020
SWR, 3sat und ARD-alpha
November 24th, 2020
Vienna, Austria
September 25th, 2020
Trento, Italy
Bloomberg Green
Catastrophic fires call for rethinking suburban NIMBYism
Bloomberg Green
New information about the link between atmospheric CO₂ and eventual global average warming bolsters the case for climate policy now
July 6th, 2020
By Marlowe Hood/Agence France-Presse
June 30th, 2020
Covid-Klima Links
One Earth
Uncertainty is not our friend
Bloomberg Green
The economics of climate attribution are lagging behind the impacts of dangerous weather.
August 6th, 2021
"Your leadership is urgently needed to seize the small window of opportunity that remains to limit the most catastrophic impacts of climate change now and for future generations."
Bloomberg Green
The economist Martin Weitzman got scientists and politicians to think about the worst-case outcomes of global warming. We’re seeing them happen right now.
Project Syndicate
With its fixation on equilibrium thinking and an exclusive focus on market factors that can be precisely measured, the neoclassical orthodoxy in economics is fundamentally unequipped to deal with today's biggest problems. Change within the discipline is underway, but it cannot come fast enough.
June 8th, 2021
Conversation with Rob Stavins
Project Syndicate
The green transition comes with costs; but they are well worth it, and they pale in comparison to the costs of inaction. The ever-falling costs of renewables have not eliminated the politics of climate change. But they certainly have made our choices much easier.
November 22nd, 2020
SWR, 3sat und ARD-alpha
November 24th, 2020
Vienna, Austria
September 25th, 2020
Trento, Italy
Bloomberg Green
Catastrophic fires call for rethinking suburban NIMBYism