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Mahindra United World College India
Climate tech
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
by Wake Smith & Gernot Wagner
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
Errors of commission versus errors of omission
The moral dilemma on climate