Environment

What, if anything, can economics contribute to addressing the climate crisis? What role can or should markets and incentives play, and how?

Are existing institutions up to the task? Is the nation-state an obstacle, and if so how do we overcome it? What would alternatives look like, and how would we realize them?

Has the financial system contributed to the climate crisis? Can it contribute to a green transition?

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Scientists have been sounding the alarm for decades about the severe global impact that rising temperatures will have on the environment, economies, health outcomes, and ultimately humanity’s long-term survival. Yet little has been done.

The work of feminist thinkers helps illuminate why billionaires seek to solve problems on Earth by blasting into space.

Getting the whole spectrum of governments, academia and civil society to track “natural capital” would help create shared efforts toward solving shared problems like the climate crisis.

A global carbon tax alone will not be enough to significantly reduce CO2 emissions

Lance Taylor’s New INET Paper

And electric vehicles don’t do a lot better

Wealthy predators are playing stock market games with companies needed to develop and produce clean technology

The IPCC was correct in emphasizing the need for early mitigation, but their analysis of possible growth trajectories appears to be faulty.

Carbon pricing still has the potential to be a powerful tool contributing to emissions reductions, but it is clearly no panacea.

Carbon pricing still has the potential to be a powerful tool contributing to emissions reductions, but it is clearly no panacea.

Global carbon emissions could fall by an estimated 5.5% in 2020 as a result of declining industrial production in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. But if the change is not systemic these effects may be fleeting, and the changing climate could put hundreds of millions of lives, trillions of dollars of economic activity, and the world’s physical and natural capital at risk.