Policy design for the Anthropocene

Today, more than ever, ‘Spaceship Earth’ is an apt metaphor as we chart the boundaries for a safe planet. What can social scientists contribute to this conversation?

The Hazard of Environmental Morality

Efforts to combat climate change should be pragmatic above all else.

Prescriptivism, risk aversion, and intertemporal substitution in climate economics

A new conceptual framework for the age-old prescriptivism-versus-descriptivism debate

Energy Research Insights for Decisionmaking

Washington, DC

Confronting Deep and Persistent Climate Uncertainty

The massive uncertainties afflicting climate change should be a prod to policy action.

Die Presse: “Der Klimawandel, das perfekte Problem”

Gespräch mit Judith Hecht

Harvard University Center for the Environment

Cambridge, MA

University of Washington

Friday Harbor, Washington

An Economic Anatomy of Optimal Climate Policy

Together with mitigation and adaptation, carbon and solar geoengineering span the universe of possible climate policies.

European Forum Alpbach: “Physics meets economics”

Alpbach, Austria

Discussion with Robert Frank

New York, NY

The True Price of Carbon

A $40 carbon dioxide price? Try $100, $200, or possibly more.

An Economist’s Guide to Spending Bezos’s Billions on Climate Change

The money would go far in politics, but it will also allow for technological experimentation and will take a fundraising burden off recipients.

Carbon Taxes Alone Aren’t Good Climate Policy

To drive down tomorrow’s CO₂ emissions, governments need to subsidize fossil fuel alternatives, too.

India in the coming ‘climate G2’?

India, not China, will soon be the most significant counterweight to the United States in global climate negotiations.

Why Oil Giants Figured Out Carbon Costs First

Inaugural Risky Climate column

“Ohne Trump keine Thunberg”

Der Standard Interview

East Carolina University

Greenville, NC

NPR Marketplace

Cap and trade has conservative, Republican origins

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