Carbon Taxes Alone Aren’t Good Climate Policy
To drive down tomorrow’s CO₂ emissions, governments need to subsidize fossil fuel alternatives, too.

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To drive down tomorrow’s CO₂ emissions, governments need to subsidize fossil fuel alternatives, too.
Inaugural Risky Climate column
By Gernot Wagner and Constantine Samaras
Classifying policies by type and by rights assigned to polluters or victims.
Efforts to combat climate change should be pragmatic above all else.
Fast, Cheap, and Imperfect
by Juan B. Moreno-Cruz, Gernot Wagner, and David W. Keith
by Thomas Stoerk, Gernot Wagner, and Robert E.T. Ward
by Aseem Mahajan, Dustin Tingley, and Gernot Wagner
by Gernot Wagner & Martin L. Weitzman; reply to Cox et al. (2018), Nature 553 (7688), 319-322.
Around 60 percent of all social media discourse on geoengineering is conspiratorial, and belief in the conspiracy appears across party lines.
Gespräch mit Benjamin Enajat
by Kristina Mohlin, Jonathan R. Camuzeaux, Adrian Muller, Marius Schneider, and Gernot Wagner
Pumping aerosols into the stratosphere may buy us more time, but it’s no substitute for cutting carbon emissions—and we still don’t know enough to do it responsibly.
by J. Paul Kelleher and Gernot Wagner
by Paul Bodnar, Caroline Ott, Rupert Edwards, Stephan Hoch, Emily F. McGlynn & Gernot Wagner
by Jonas Meckling, Thomas Sterner & Gernot Wagner
by Dustin Tingley and Gernot Wagner
Gespräch mit Martin Tauss
by David W. Keith, Gernot Wagner and Claire L. Zabel