At the heart of policy debates about our collective responses to climate change is the issue of risk and uncertainty—‘unknown unknowns’ about the impact of global warming. In this Vox Talk, Gernot Wagner—co-author with Harvard’s Martin L. Weitzman of Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet—speaks with Romesh Vaitilingam on why "we need to stick it to CO2, not to capitalism."
Audio via VoxEU.org.
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Deutschland hat es versäumt, eine konsequente Energiepolitik für die Zukunft zu machen. Stattdessen lähmt eine übervorsichtige Industriepolitik den Wandel. So bleibt man abhängig – von China und den USA.
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