What we know — and what we don’t — about global warming
By Gernot WagnerBy Gernot Wagner and Martin L. Weitzman: Two quick questions: Do you think climate change is an urgent problem? Do you think getting the world off fossil fuels is difficult? This is how...
View ArticleClimate Shock on FT McKinsey Business Book of the Year longlist
By Gernot Wagner "Business Book Award longlist: must-read titles of 2015" by Andrew Hill (Financial Times, 12 August 2015).
View ArticleStatistics 101: Climate policy = risk management
By Gernot WagnerBjørn Lomborg reviewed my book, Climate Shock (Princeton University Press, 2015), joint with Harvard's Martin L. Weitzman, for Barron's over the weekend. He started it by stating that...
View ArticleBiking and Renewables
By Gernot WagnerIllustration by Kelsey King/Ensia There’s nothing quite like biking down clogged city streets, weaving in and out of traffic. For short distances, it’s faster than driving. It’s...
View ArticleFrom climate finance to finance
By Gernot WagnerClimate finance is lots of things to lots of people. For some, it’s the $100 billion “Copenhagen commitment”. For others, it’s Citi’s latest sustainable finance pledge of $100 billion....
View ArticlePBS NewsHour Making Sen$e with Paul Solman
By Gernot WagnerQ&A accompanying a re-broadcast of a PBS NewsHour segment featuring Climate Shock: Everyone is talking about 2 degrees Celsius. Why? What happens if the planet warms by 2 degrees...
View ArticleThe Atlantic's year-end feature "Hope & Despair"
By Gernot WagnerLucy Nicholson / Reuters / Zak Bickel / The Atlantic Reason for despair: Climate change. It’s the perfect problem: more global, more long-term, more irreversible, and more uncertain...
View ArticleLinking in a world of significant policy uncertainty
By Gernot WagnerThis guest blog was co-authored with Thomas Sterner And then there were three. As of January 1st, 2018, Ontario has joined California and Québec, linking their respective carbon...
View ArticlePolicy Design for the Anthropocene
By Gernot WagnerThere’s no denying we humans are changing the planet at an unprecedented pace. If carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is any guide, that pace is increasing at an increasing rate. For those...
View ArticleNot all fossil fuel subsidies are created equal, all are bad for the planet
By Gernot WagnerThis is part two of a five-part series exploring “Policy Design for the Anthropocene,” based on a recent Nature Sustainability Perspective. The first post explored the intersection of...
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