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.
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.
Spring 2021
Pat Thurston Show
by Jonathan Camuzeaux, Thomas Sterner, and Gernot Wagner
Gespräch mit Benedikt Narodoslawsky
Climate policy requires a balance of bottom-up and top-down approaches
by Jonas Meckling, Thomas Sterner & Gernot Wagner
World Bank Partnership for Market Readiness and International Carbon Action Partnership
New York University Stern School of Business
From "climate finance" to "finance"
by Nat Keohane & Gernot Wagner
In honor of the 2014 Upton Scholar Robert N. Stavins
by Jessica F. Green, Thomas Sterner and Gernot Wagner
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.
The goal of emissions trading systems is to make them scarce, not to make them costly.
Guest lecture
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?
by Gernot Wagner, Nathaniel O. Keohane, and Annie Petsonk
Clean Investment Budgets to finance low-carbon economic development