Arab Fiscal Forum
Dubai, UAE
Covid
I.S.E.O Summer School
Iseo (Brescia), Italia
Timing is everything
Acting early can change the entire trajectory of a pandemic — or the global climate crisis
Österreichisches Windenergiesymposium
Vienna, Austria
WKO Exporttag
Covid-Klima Links
Covid-climate links
My Covid-climate thoughts organized in one place, in reverse chronological order
How to Reset the US Pandemic Response
Whether the problem is COVID-19 or climate change, the market on its own will not produce a sufficient quantity of goods – like therapeutic drugs or environmentally sustainable growth – that benefit society. Capitalizing on America’s private-sector dynamism will require the state to create incentives to produce such “social goods.”
Delayed Gratification Reading Club
London, UK
Foreign Policy: Sorry, Nature Isn’t Returning
Don’t Touch Your Face podcast
NYU WAGTalks: Climate and Covid
NYU Wagner
franknews: Ignoring Reality
Interview with Tatti Ribeiro
Nein zur „Verschrottungsprämie“
Offener Brief von GLOBAL 2000, VCÖ, WWF Österreich, Sigrid Stagl, Karl Aiginger und Gernot Wagner an die österreichische Bundesregierung
The Leadership Failure That Will Cost Us Everything
If COVID-19 has taught us anything, it is that delaying prudent policymaking does not merely result in higher marginal costs down the road. Rather, it puts us on an entirely different trajectory – one that all too easily can end in catastrophe.
How Virus Testing Is Just Like A Carbon Tax
Testing and taxing are important steps in the fights against the pandemic and climate change— and both have their limits.
BECC
Webinar
Why COVID-19's Effect on Carbon Emissions Isn't a Win
Pausing the World to Fight Coronavirus Has Carbon Emissions Down—But True Climate Success Looks Like More Action, Not Less
Benefit-Cost Analysis in the Time of Coronavirus and Climate Change
Like climate economics, the economics of Covid-19 mean we need to take aggressive action, not incremental steps.
CNBC: How Coronavirus quarantines lead to a drop in air pollution
Report by Katie Brigham
MIT Technology Review
Radio Corona
The Virus Is Teaching Everyone What Runaway Growth Really Means
To make sense of the spread of Covid-19, economics—particularly black swan events and compound growth—can provide guidance.