Climate economist, Columbia
https://gwagner.com
It’s pronounced juggernaut without the jug.
Gernot Wagner is an Austro-American climate economist at Columbia Business School. He holds an AB and a PhD in political economy and government from Harvard University, as well as an MA in economics from Stanford University. A founding co-director of Harvard's Solar Geoengineering Research Program (2017–2019) he joined the faculty of New York University in 2019, moving to Columbia University in 2022. Wagner writes a monthly column for Project Syndicate, and is the co-author, with Martin L. Weitzman, of Climate Shock, a Top 15 Financial Times-McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2015. He won the "Austrian of the Year" award in 2022, awarded by Austrian daily Die Presse. .. more
The zero-emissions version must pass any benefit-cost test with flying colors, especially on a day like today with thousands of people in the vicinity.
Reposted by Richard Waite
¹ gwagner.com/cbs-climate-policy
² gwagner.com/cbs-climate-risk
The most important bit: 500(!) out of our 800 MBAs a year take this climate course
poetsandquants.com/2025/11/25/p...
Reposted by Gernot Wagner, Federica Genovese
gwagner.com/books/climateshock
Reposted by Juan Cole
10 years later, it's an above-the-fold NYT headline.
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Public procurement is key to climate success.
Spot on by Casier, @jorenverschaeve.bsky.social & Deboffe via @projectsyndicate.bsky.social
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Legitimate green card applicants with US spouses are being
arrested by armed, masked men at scheduled immigration interviews, taken away from their children, sent to prison
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Reposted by Gernot Wagner, Randall A. Kramer
Climate risk is financial risk – we need asset managers who will invest responsibly.🧵
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
gwagner.com/costless
And yes, IKEA by now sells heat pumps www.ikea.com/es/en/energy...
There really is no excuse.
(Narrator: It never just takes 4 weeks.)
(Yes, that assuming a decarbonized grid, which is outside your immediate purview.¹)
¹ That decarbonization, too, is happening faster than most think business.columbia.edu/insights/climate/solar
But you've just locked in 40 more years of gas.
He has a gas furnace in his truck parked right outside. Oh, and it's 40% more efficient than your ancient one.
(Narrator: it always happens on the coldest day of the year.)
For a year, I've been working on a series about the vast systems that underlie our lives. Built up over decades, these systems are the cathedrals of our time--but all too few of us know about them, and they're all at risk. Here's the latest:
Reposted by Gernot Wagner
For a year, I've been working on a series about the vast systems that underlie our lives. Built up over decades, these systems are the cathedrals of our time--but all too few of us know about them, and they're all at risk. Here's the latest:
