Columbia Business School: Climate Policy
Spring 2026 A-term course
Policy sequencing
Gute Industriepolitik ebnet den Weg zu effektiven CO2-Preisen
Es gibt handfeste Gründe dafür, effizienten Technologien zum Durchbruch zu verhelfen.
The Best Climate Policy Puts Carrots Before Sticks
Economists have long insisted that the only way to cut emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases rapidly and at scale is to put a price on them. But while that is true, the key to a successful, politically sustainable climate policy is to ensure that the benefits precede the costs.
Taming Carbon
When the Price Is Right
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.
Geoengineering: the Gamble
Book excerpt
Profil: „Gewesslers Fußabdruck“
von Katharina Zwins
Auch kleine Schritte gegen den Klimawandel zählen
von Gernot Wagner
How individual actions can combat climate change
Personal efforts make a difference when they gather momentum across society, says a climate economist
For Effective Climate Policy, the First Step is the Hardest
After more than three decades of trying, Austria moves to tax carbon.
Carbon Pricing and Innovation in a World of Political Constraints
NYU Wagner workshop organized by Jesse D. Jenkins, Leah Stokes, and Gernot Wagner
Policy sequencing toward decarbonization
by Jonas Meckling, Thomas Sterner & Gernot Wagner
Push renewables to spur carbon pricing
Make wind and solar power even cheaper by opening up access to the electricity grid and ending fossil-fuel subsidies.
