Why the cost of carbon pollution is both too high and too low

Inconvenient Uncertainties

We know enough to act now. What we don’t know should prompt us to even more decisive action.

Leading from behind

Rational planning demands a price on carbon

Air conditioning is not the enemy

Carbon pollution is.

Global Kids Institute, Council on Foreign Relations

New York, NY

Judge a carbon market by its cap, not its prices

The goal of emissions trading systems is to make them scarce, not to make them costly.

PlasTax: the best kind of nudge

Follow the Plastic Bag Example

Tackling Global Warming

New York Times Sunday Dialogue

Why does no one in Thailand recycle, Bangkok is a polluted mess, yet everyone uses CFLs?

Nature comment: The rebound effect is overplayed

It's there. It's small. And it's good for you.

2015 Occasional Workshop in Environmental and Resource Economics

Santa Barbara, CA

Biking and Renewables

When it comes to fitting into the current system, commuters and electrons have a lot in common.

Statistics 101: Climate policy = risk management

My response to Bjørn Lomborg's review of Climate Shock in Barron's.

Push renewables to spur carbon pricing

Make wind and solar power even cheaper by opening up access to the electricity grid and ending fossil-fuel subsidies.

The Economics of Energy

Fall 2015

Managing Uncertain Climates

Some Guidance for Policy Makers and Researchers

PBS NewsHour

The economic options for combatting climate change

Pluses and Minuses of a Carbon Tax

Either a tax or a cap can put a price on climate pollution. The goal is to reduce it.

When dealing with global warming, the size of the risk matters

Climate change is both high-impact and high-probability.

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