Do We Really Have Only 12 Years to Avoid Climate Disaster?

The widely recited “12-year deadline” to avert catastrophe is wrong — and right.

“Eine CO2-Steuer trifft die Reichen”

Gespräch mit Benedikt Narodoslawsky

Outside/In — Planet “B”

Is geoengineering crazy enough to work? Or just plain crazy?

Not all fossil fuel subsidies are created equal, all are bad for the planet

Subsidy (noun, \ ˈsəb-sə-dē \) “a grant by a government to a private person or company to assist an enterprise deemed advantageous to the public”

Planetary Boundaries and the Anthropocene

Classifying policies by type and by rights assigned to polluters or victims.

University of Chicago

Chicago, IL

Policy Design for the Anthropocene

How to choose? Environmental effectiveness, economic efficiency, and political efficacy

Might research on solar geoengineering resemble its broader “free-driver” dynamics?

Moving to Economics 102 often reverses fundamental Econ 101 answers around cutting carbon emissions. Might the same be true—in reverse—when moving from Solar Geoengineering 101 to 102?

TEDxUniversityofRochester

Rochester, NY

Climate Hackers

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Jain Family Institute

New York, NY

Why COVID-19’s Effect on Carbon Emissions Isn’t a Win

Pausing the World to Fight Coronavirus Has Carbon Emissions Down—But True Climate Success Looks Like More Action, Not Less

Benefit-Cost Analysis in the Time of Coronavirus and Climate Change

Like climate economics, the economics of Covid-19 mean we need to take aggressive action, not incremental steps.

CNBC: How Coronavirus quarantines lead to a drop in air pollution

Report by Katie Brigham

The Virus Is Teaching Everyone What Runaway Growth Really Means

To make sense of the spread of Covid-19, economics—particularly black swan events and compound growth—can provide guidance.

University of Maryland

College Park, MD

To the Point: Coronavirus, climate change, and living in states of emergency

Hosted by Warren Olney

Compound Growth Could Kill Us – or Make Us Stronger

The power of compound growth has long been recognized as essential to economic development. But in both the COVID-19 pandemic and the slower-moving climate crisis, this same mathematical force is cutting the other way, revealing dangerous shortcomings in how we manage externalities.

How Economics Can Inform Coronavirus Decision-Making

When considering travel and other choices, economic principles can provide guidance.

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