Climate Risks, Uncertainties, and Opportunities
Columbia Business School Reunion
Climate tech
Carbon Adjustment Tax
Conversation with Shiva Rajgopal and Aniket Shah
What Does Trump Mean for the Climate?
Even if Donald Trump defeats President Joe Biden and tries to take a wrecking ball to US climate and environmental policies, he ultimately would be powerless to derail the inevitable renewables revolution that is gaining momentum worldwide. His anti-climate agenda would be another wall that never gets built.
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.
The costs of “costless” climate mitigation
by Matthew J. Kotchen, James A. Rising, and Gernot Wagner
McGill University
Montreal, Canada
Washington Post Live
Conversation with Timothy Puko
How to Think About Climate-Tech Solutions
To think that technology will save us from climate change is to invite riskier behavior, or moral hazard. Whether a climate technology creates new problems has little to do with the solution, and everything to do with us.
Will the Banking Busts Hurt Clean Tech?
Rather than impeding the clean-energy race, the recent collapse of the US start-up community's go-to bank offers valuable lessons for managing the public-private minuet that the net-zero transition requires. The doomsayers are missing the bigger picture.
Climate Change and the Energy Transition
Spring 2023 MBA half-course
Realism About Techno-Optimism
Speeding up the adoption of already proven and scalable technologies, and exposing the many hidden costs associated with fossil fuels, is a necessary goal. Achieving it will require new policies to guide investments in the right direction, and techno-optimists ought to be the loudest advocates.
Youth4Climate
Mahindra United World College India
Some Green Technologies Are More Equal Than Others
With more governments embracing industrial policies to transform their economies, picking the right technologies to subsidize will become a key challenge. To navigate the minefield of entrenched interests, techno-hype, and political pressures, policymakers must embrace a mix of openness and caution.
The Clean-Energy Race Is On
While no legislation is perfect, the US Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 will be a game changer for the transition to clean-energy sources, both in America and around the world. By doubling down on forward-looking industrial policy, the US is suddenly poised to give Europe, China, and others a run for their money.
It’s late, and it’s cheap
A lot more needs to happen, a lot more can happen
How I Greened My Prewar Co-op
A climate economist overhauls his leaky, 200-year-old co-op.
The Climate Tipping Point We Want
The green transition comes with costs; but they are well worth it, and they pale in comparison to the costs of inaction. The ever-falling costs of renewables have not eliminated the politics of climate change. But they certainly have made our choices much easier.
Leveraging Open-Source Tools for Collaborative Macro-energy System Modeling Efforts
U.S. Open Energy Outlook
