Fat tails

The Risky Language of Climate Uncertainty

Academics need to stop talking about climate change in ways that obscure its true dangers.

27 Oct 22

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.

28 Sep 22

Environment for Development

Kampala, Uganda

25 Sep 22

NYT: Pace of Climate Change Sends Economists Back to Drawing Board

By Lydia DePillis

25 Aug 22

Axios: "Climate change catastrophes need greater study"

By Andrew Freedman

3 Aug 22

Martin Weitzman: A Gift that Keeps on Giving

Introduction for Special Issue in Honor of Martin Weitzman

27 Jun 22

White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

Roundtable

24 Feb 22

UPenn Wharton

Energy Economics & Finance Seminar

21 Feb 22

Bates College

Lewiston, Maine

15 Feb 22

Jönköping University

Sweden

2 Feb 22

Österreichische Nationalbank

Vienna, Austria

14 Jan 22

IMF Independent Evaluation Office

IEO Seminar series

2 Nov 21

Financial Industry Climate Leadership Network

finclean.org

20 Oct 21

WFYI Indianapolis: Purdue brings climate skeptic to campus

By Ben Thorp

19 Oct 21

Cascadia Wildfire and Urban Smoke

Webinar

30 Sep 21

Peking University Financial Review

Cover Story | 封面

10 Sep 21

Costly tipping points

New research shows significant economic costs of climate risks.

20 Aug 21

NBER Summer Institute

Environmental & Energy Economics

27 Jul 21

Nightmare Climate Scenarios

The economist Martin Weitzman got scientists and politicians to think about the worst-case outcomes of global warming. We’re seeing them happen right now.

9 Jul 21

Economics Needs a Climate Revolution

With its fixation on equilibrium thinking and an exclusive focus on market factors that can be precisely measured, the neoclassical orthodoxy in economics is fundamentally unequipped to deal with today's biggest problems. Change within the discipline is underway, but it cannot come fast enough.

28 Jun 21