Economics Needs a Climate Revolution

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.

Fear of Geoengineering Is Really Anxiety About Cutting Carbon

Research into unproven technofixes isn’t a replacement for eliminating emissions, even if the debate over geoengineering is stuck on that concern.

Germany’s climate election

There is plenty of debate and acrimony, but there is indeed debate about policy solutions.

Harvard Environmental Insights podcast

Conversation with Rob Stavins

The Guardian on Republicans and fossil fuels

"Republicans pledge allegiance to fossil fuels like it’s still the 1950s"

Response to Steve Koonin

His track record on getting climate science right is extremely poor.

A To-Do List for the New Climate Activists on Exxon’s Board

After a week when three oil giants were forced to face climate urgency, a guide to what concrete change might look like.

The Climate Tipping Point We Want

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.

Carbon Taxes Cut Emissions, Not Jobs or Economic Growth

It’s easy to see why infrastructure spending would cut emissions, while creating jobs. Carbon taxes appear to do the same.

Why the Biden Administration Should Propose Carbon Tariffs

Assessing tariffs based on the carbon content of goods is complicated, but will lead to stronger climate policy and better economic outcomes.

CNET: “Should we dim the sun? Why we need to talk about solar geoengineering”

By Jackson Ryan

IMF Independent Evaluation Office

IEO Seminar series

Lawmakers Need to Do Whatever It Takes to Price Carbon

No policy should be excluded based on purist economic or environmentalist principles

The Pulse: “New fronts in the fight against climate change”

WHYY Philadelphia & Delaware

dimensionen.diskussionen: Städte gegen die Klimakrise

Gespräch mit Marlene Nowotny

BBC World News: Geoengineering

WFYI Indianapolis: Purdue brings climate skeptic to campus

By Ben Thorp

The Naked Scientists: Is green energy more expensive?

Does cutting down on fossil fuel prove to be more cost effective for the green energy consumer?

Kunst Haus Wien

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