Climate finance
Carbon Adjustment Tax
Conversation with Shiva Rajgopal and Aniket Shah
How to Assess the Outcome of COP28
Given that this year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference was hosted by a petrostate and led by a fossil-fuel CEO, climate campaigners understandably had low expectations. Yet the summit did deliver some new commitments, and there is good reason to think that they are more than just empty words.
Amazon Economics
Columbia Business School
OPEC Fund Development Forum
Vienna, Austria
Salomon Senior Leaders Program
Columbia Business School Executive Education
Arab Fiscal Forum
Dubai, UAE
Who Pays for Climate Change?
In the face of a massive financing gap for climate-change mitigation and adaptation in developing countries, everyone accepts the need for more "creative" measures to unlock and redirect private capital. But proposals like carbon credits must be understood merely as stepping stones, rather than as lasting solutions.
Climate risk is financial risk
“Diversifying risk is nigh impossible when it affects the entire planet.”
A To-Do List for the New Climate Activists on Exxon’s Board
After a week when three oil giants were forced to face climate urgency, a guide to what concrete change might look like.
European Forum Alpbach: "Physics meets economics"
Alpbach, Austria
Underwriting 1.5°C: competitive approaches to financing accelerated climate change mitigation
by Paul Bodnar, Caroline Ott, Rupert Edwards, Stephan Hoch, Emily F. McGlynn & Gernot Wagner
Energy and Environment class
New York University Stern School of Business
A balance of bottom-up and top-down in linking climate policies
by Jessica F. Green, Thomas Sterner and Gernot Wagner
Mobilizing the Private Sector: Quantity-Performance Instruments for Public Climate Funds.
by Arunabha Ghosh, Benito Müller, William Pizer, and Gernot Wagner
Improving the Effectiveness of Climate Finance
ODI, CPI, EDF & Brookings joint research initiative
Sectoral Crediting: Getting governance right from the beginning
by Gernot Wagner, Nathaniel O. Keohane, and Annie Petsonk
Docking into a global carbon market
Clean Investment Budgets to finance low-carbon economic development