Climate shock: the economic consequences of a hotter planet

Gernot Wagner interviewed by Romesh Vaitilingam, 16 December 2015

At the heart of policy debates about our collective responses to climate change is the issue of risk and uncertainty - ‘unknown unknowns’ about the impact of global warming. In this Vox Talk, Gernot Wagner - co-author with Harvard’s Martin L. Weitzman of 'Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet’ - argues for Pigovian taxes and carbon pricing, against geoengineering solutions, and why 'we need to stick it to CO2, not to capitalism’.

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Topics:  Environment

Gernot Wagner

Lead Senior Economist, Environmental Defense Fund

Events

  • China Economics Summer Institute (CESI)
    17 - 18 August 2019 / Peking University, Beijing / Chinese University of Hong Kong – Tsinghua University Joint Research Center for Chinese Economy, the Institute for Emerging Market Studies at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University, the Stanford Center on Global Poverty and Development at Stanford University, the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University, BREAD, NBER and CEPR
  • CALL FOR PAPER - Vienna Symposium on Foreign Exchange Markets
    19 - 20 August 2019 / Vienna, Palais Coburg / WU Research Institute for Capital Markets (ISK)
  • SALENTO MACRO MEETINGS 2019
    29 - 30 August 2019 / Galatina, Italy /
  • Sustainable Development Conference 2019
    4 - 5 September 2019 / Roma Eventi, Congress Center, Pontificia Università Gregoriana Piazza della Pilotta, 4, Rome, Italy / European Center of Sustainable Development , CIT University
  • CIMS Summer School and Conference 2019
    9 - 14 September 2019 / Guildford, Surrey, UK / The University of Surrey

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