The economic case for the United States to remain in the Paris Agreement on climate change

LSE Grantham Policy Brief

Uncertainties in Climate and Weather Extremes Increase the Cost of Carbon

Uncertainty is not our friend

Covid-climate links

My Covid-climate thoughts organized in one place, in reverse chronological order

How to Reset the US Pandemic Response

Whether the problem is COVID-19 or climate change, the market on its own will not produce a sufficient quantity of goods – like therapeutic drugs or environmentally sustainable growth – that benefit society. Capitalizing on America’s private-sector dynamism will require the state to create incentives to produce such “social goods.”

Chronicle of Philanthropy letter: Economics shows need for more action

Letter to the Editor

Foreign Policy: Sorry, Nature Isn’t Returning

Don’t Touch Your Face podcast

franknews: Ignoring Reality

Interview with Tatti Ribeiro

The Leadership Failure That Will Cost Us Everything

If COVID-19 has taught us anything, it is that delaying prudent policymaking does not merely result in higher marginal costs down the road. Rather, it puts us on an entirely different trajectory – one that all too easily can end in catastrophe.

NYU WAGTalks: Climate and Covid

NYU Wagner

How Virus Testing Is Just Like A Carbon Tax

Testing and taxing are important steps in the fights against the pandemic and climate change— and both have their limits.

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.

Infrastructure means jobs

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

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