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.

Infrastructure means jobs

Jobs vs. environment is an old trope whose time has passed.

How to Judge Biden’s Climate Record

To assess the effectiveness of climate policies, don’t look at today’s CO₂ emissions, instead focus on the trajectory.

It’s Too Late for Big Oil’s Pivot to a Carbon Tax

The American Petroleum Institute is considering endorsing a carbon price. That’s a big shift, but a carbon price alone is not good climate policy.

The Biggest Climate Change Stories of 2020

Climate change mitigation became an economic positive

Leveraging Open-Source Tools for Collaborative Macro-energy System Modeling Efforts

U.S. Open Energy Outlook

Österreichisches Windenergiesymposium

Vienna, Austria

Biden’s unifying climate plan

Instead of narrowly addressing carbon pricing, as economists have traditionally favored, the proposal has many aims

The No DICE Carbon Price

If $40/t CO₂ were the "right" price, tax carbon and move on. $40/t isn't the right price. The Exxon-backed tax isn't it.

Festival of Economics

Trento, Italy

Kunst Haus Wien

Hundertwasser bewegt

Salon: “Could Earth be cooled by reflecting sunlight back into space?”

Interview with Matthew Rozsa

New Summits

Project Syndicate Panel Discussion and Q&A with International Media

Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei

Rome, Italy

Costly tipping points

New research shows significant economic costs of climate risks.

Conservative climate science

Climate science and economics are inherently conservative, and that may be a factor in Monday's highly-anticipated IPCC report.

la Repubblica Interview

Colloquio con Eugenio Occorsio

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.

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