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.
Cap and Trade
Climate Economics
Spring 2021
KGO 810 Radio San Francisco
Pat Thurston Show
India in the coming 'climate G2'?
India, not China, will soon be the most significant counterweight to the United States in global climate negotiations.
"Eine CO2-Steuer trifft die Reichen"
Gespräch mit Benedikt Narodoslawsky
Linking in a world of significant policy uncertainty
Climate policy requires a balance of bottom-up and top-down approaches
Policy sequencing toward decarbonization
Economics 101 says price carbon. Economics 102 says subsidize R&D. Political Economy 101 points to policies that support clean technology deployment.
Emissions Trading in Practice: A Handbook on Design and Implementation
World Bank Partnership for Market Readiness and International Carbon Action Partnership
Energy and Environment class
New York University Stern School of Business
Carbon markets and climate finance
From "climate finance" to "finance"
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.
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.
Linking sound economics with global politics
In honor of the 2014 Upton Scholar Robert N. Stavins
A balance of bottom-up and top-down in linking climate policies
Neither extreme is desirable.
Carbon Cap and Trade
Cap and trade comes in two parts: a cap on total emissions and a system that allows trading to achieve that limit as cost-effectively as possible.
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.
New York University
Guest lecture
Carbon trading grows up
When someone robs a bank, nobody challenges the legitimacy of banks. They suggest instead that the bank find better security. Why should carbon markets be any different?
Sectoral Crediting
Getting governance right from the beginning
Docking into a global carbon market
Clean Investment Budgets to finance low-carbon economic development