Economist Sustainability Week: "Weathering the storm—measuring and managing climate-related financial risks"
Washington, DC
Climate risk
My research, teaching, writing, and speaking focused on climate risks and uncertainties, including e.g. everything related to calculating (and making sense of) the Social Cost of Carbon (SCC).
Salomon Senior Leaders Program
Columbia Business School Executive Education
Youth4Climate
Mahindra United World College India
The Risky Language of Climate Uncertainty
Academics need to stop talking about climate change in ways that obscure its true dangers.
Glacier Climate Week
Vienna, Austria
The High Stakes of Climate-Risk Accounting
Although businesses and investors stand to make a lot of money if they can properly navigate the new risk environment, no one seems to have a good explanation for why we are where we are. Climate risks, in particular, have been systematically underestimated, and thus mispriced, for decades.
NYT: Pace of Climate Change Sends Economists Back to Drawing Board
By Lydia DePillis
Axios: "Climate change catastrophes need greater study"
By Andrew Freedman
Climate risk is financial risk
“Diversifying risk is nigh impossible when it affects the entire planet.”
Millennium: "Solar Geoengineering Risks & Research"
New York, NY
It’s late, and it’s cheap
A lot more needs to happen, a lot more can happen
Foreign Service Institute
U.S. State Department
Österreichische Nationalbank: "Carbon Prices, Preferences, and the Timing of Uncertainty"
Vienna, Austria
Heat has larger impacts on labor in poorer areas
by A. Patrick Behrer, R. Jisung Park, Gernot Wagner, Colleen M. Golja, and David W. Keith
Economic impacts of tipping points in the climate system
by Simon Dietz, James Rising, Thomas Stoerk, and Gernot Wagner
Climate Economics
Spring 2021
California Nightmare
Catastrophic fires call for rethinking suburban NIMBYism
Climate Economics Nobel May Do More Harm Than Good
By Marlowe Hood/Agence France-Presse
Uncertainties in Climate and Weather Extremes Increase the Cost of Carbon
Uncertainty is not our friend
Declining CO₂ price paths
by Kent D. Daniel, Robert B. Litterman, and Gernot Wagner
