Climate tech
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.
Salomon Senior Leaders Program
Columbia Business School Executive Education
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
Highly decentralized solar geoengineering
by Jesse L. Reynolds and Gernot Wagner
What it’s like when Questlove does a better job tweeting about your research than CNN
A conversation between Holly Buck and Gernot Wagner
Stratospheric aerosol injection tactics and costs in the first 15 years of deployment
While cheap, such an aircraft-based program would unlikely be a secret
European Forum Alpbach: "Physics meets economics"
Alpbach, Austria
What do people think when they think about solar geoengineering?
by Elizabeth T. Burns, Jane A. Flegal, David W. Keith, Aseem Mahajan, Dustin Tingley, and Gernot Wagner
