The Best Climate Policy Puts Carrots Before Sticks
* opinion. Alas no, it's not.
Gernot Wagner is a climate economist at Columbia Business School.
Jan 16, 2025 Gernot Wagner notes that green technologies retain their many advantages, regardless of national political developments.
Nov 8, 2024 Gernot Wagner notes that the president-elect’s proposed policies will mainly harm America, not the global energy transition.
Aug 8, 2024 Monika Schnitzer & Gernot Wagner show how the sequencing of positive and negative inducements can make all the difference.
May 1, 2024 Alessio Terzi & Gernot Wagner show why shrinking the global economy, as envisaged by advocates of degrowth, is a bad way to cut emissions.
Apr 5, 2024 Gernot Wagner & Shang-Jin Wei explains why the United States and the European Union are considering tariffs – and why that’s a bad idea.
Within his first month back in the White House, Donald Trump has upended US foreign policy and launched an all-out assault on the country’s constitutional order. With US institutions bowing or buckling as the administration takes executive power to unprecedented extremes, the establishment of an authoritarian regime cannot be ruled out.