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.
The science is ripe to update estimates of CO2 emissions costs. Calls to scrap the calculation are misguided.
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
By Kelly Macnamara & Marlowe Hood/Agence France-Presse
Advice to the Biden administration as it seeks to account for mounting losses from storms, wildfires and other climate impacts.
The U.S. is updating a number with the potential to push federal regulations into overdrive.
Spring 2021
NYU Wagner workshop held on March 19-20, 2020.
NYU Wagner
The Numbers Behind Exxon’s Support for a Carbon Tax
If $40/t CO₂ were the "right" price, tax carbon and move on. $40/t isn't the right price. The Exxon-backed tax isn't it.
Special session in memory of Martin L. Weitzman
Uncertainty is not our friend
A $40 carbon dioxide price? Try $100, $200, or possibly more.
A new conceptual framework for the age-old prescriptivism-versus-descriptivism debate
New York University Stern School of Business
Make wind and solar power even cheaper by opening up access to the electricity grid and ending fossil-fuel subsidies.
Guest lecture