Do We Really Have Only 12 Years to Avoid Climate Disaster?
By Gernot Wagner and Constantine Samaras
Writing
My columns, essays, books, as well as research and teaching materials like case studies.
Planetary Boundaries and the Anthropocene
Classifying policies by type and by rights assigned to polluters or victims.
The Hazard of Environmental Morality
Efforts to combat climate change should be pragmatic above all else.
Prescriptivism, risk aversion, and intertemporal substitution in climate economics
by J. Paul Kelleher and Gernot Wagner
The Economics of Climate Engineering
Fast, Cheap, and Imperfect
An Economic Anatomy of Optimal Climate Policy
by Juan B. Moreno-Cruz, Gernot Wagner, and David W. Keith
Recommendations for Improving the Treatment of Risk and Uncertainty by the IPCC
by Thomas Stoerk, Gernot Wagner, and Robert E.T. Ward
Fast, cheap, and imperfect? US public opinion about solar geoengineering
by Aseem Mahajan, Dustin Tingley, and Gernot Wagner
Potentially large equilibrium climate sensitivity tail uncertainty
by Gernot Wagner & Martin L. Weitzman; reply to Cox et al. (2018), Nature 553 (7688), 319-322.
Chemtrails Are Not the Geoengineering Debate We Should Be Having (Because They’re Not Real)
Around 60 percent of all social media discourse on geoengineering is conspiratorial, and belief in the conspiracy appears across party lines.
„Der Zug ist abgefahren. Es geht darum so rasch wie möglich aufzuspringen“
Gespräch mit Benjamin Enajat
Factoring in the forgotten role of renewables in CO2 emission trends using decomposition analysis
by Kristina Mohlin, Jonathan R. Camuzeaux, Adrian Muller, Marius Schneider, and Gernot Wagner
A Big-Sky Plan to Cool the Planet
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.
Ramsey discounting calls for subtracting climate damages from economic growth rates
by J. Paul Kelleher and Gernot Wagner
Underwriting 1.5°C: competitive approaches to financing accelerated climate change mitigation
by Paul Bodnar, Caroline Ott, Rupert Edwards, Stephan Hoch, Emily F. McGlynn & Gernot Wagner
Policy sequencing toward decarbonization
by Jonas Meckling, Thomas Sterner & Gernot Wagner
Solar Geoengineering and the Chemtrails Conspiracy on Social Media
by Dustin Tingley and Gernot Wagner
"Wirtschaft wartet nicht auf Washington"
Gespräch mit Martin Tauss
Solar geoengineering reduces atmospheric carbon burden
by David W. Keith, Gernot Wagner and Claire L. Zabel
Fear of solar geoengineering is healthy – but don't distort our research
Models suggest solar geoengineering could reduce climate change and our independently assessed studies are vital to understanding its full potential
