Talking Climate with Katharine Hayhoe
Clean, green & electric with Gernot Wagner
Fossilflation
Everything inflation aka fossilflation, climateflation, greenflation — "the solution is the same for all three drivers: produce more of the climate technologies that will move the world off fossil fuels faster." (Nature, 16 April 2026)
The Ukraine War Blew Up the World’s Energy Economy
And the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act is surprisingly well-designed to deal with the fallout.
Supply, demand and polarization challenges facing US climate policies
by Matthew G. Burgess, Leaf Van Boven, Gernot Wagner, Gabrielle Wong-Parodi et al
Der Standard: "Climateflation"
von Jakob Pallinger
Guardian: "Cookies and candy are latest victims of climate crisis as sugar prices surge"
by Oliver Milman
Sonne & Stahl: "Das Jahr im Klima-Check. So gut lief's in den USA & der EU"
Mit Andreas Sator & Miranda Schreurs
Marketplace: "OPEC+ members say they’ll cut oil production. Global markets don’t seem to believe them."
by Mitchell Hartman
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Linz, Austria
Yahoo! Finance: "Inflation Reduction Act after its first year"
Interview with Akiko Fujita & Seana Smith
WSJ: "The Economic Losers in the New World Order"
By Ed Ballard, Jason Douglas, and Jon Emont
Heatmap: "The Green Hydrogen Debate Is Much Bigger Than Hydrogen"
By Emily Pontecorvo
Semafor: "What a default means for clean energy"
by Tim McDonnell
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.
Europe Must Tax Brown and Subsidize Green
The US Inflation Reduction Act is a landmark legislative package that should be welcomed around the world, despite its putatively protectionist features. Owing to the positive learning-by-doing spillovers that follow from green subsidies, Europe and the rest of the world ultimately will benefit, too.
NPR Marketplace: "White House EV investment push especially benefits one region"
by Mitchell Hartman
3 ways to spend Biden’s clean-energy windfall faster
Build, build, build.
ORF ZiB Magazin Klima: U.S. Inflation Reduction Act
mit Marcus Wadsak
Predictions for 2023
Project Syndicate