LEDs, Energy Efficiency and Consumption
LEDs alone won’t solve global warming or global poverty, but they are a step in the right direction for both.
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LEDs alone won’t solve global warming or global poverty, but they are a step in the right direction for both.
Economics is largely just organized common sense, and it doesn’t get much more common sense than benefit-cost analysis.
FT Letter by Gernot Wagner and Martin L Weitzman
If you think like an engineer climate change has dozens of challenges. If you think like an economist, it has one.
Cap and trade comes in two parts: a cap on total emissions and a system that allows trading to achieve that limit as cost-effectively as possible.
by Gernot Wagner and Martin L. Weitzman
Carbon pollution is.
The goal of emissions trading systems is to make them scarce, not to make them costly.
Green accounting is honest accounting
New York Times Sunday Dialogue
Increasing energy efficiency brings emissions savings.
No Congress? No problem. Here's what Obama can do now.
Yes, it really is climate change, stupid.
by Gernot Wagner and Martin L. Weitzman
The climate problem, twice over: Seven billion "free riders," meet the "free drivers" of geoengineering.
by Arunabha Ghosh, Benito Müller, William Pizer, and Gernot Wagner
New York Times Room for Debate
Carbon emissions have increased by 50 percent since the first Earth Summit meeting in Rio de Janeiro, but the rapid development of wind and solar energy offers hope.
Has the EU found a way to get consumers to bear more of the environmental costs of flying?
You can bail out AIG, Greece, or even the United States. You can’t bail out the planet.