I’m a climate economist at Columbia Business School, co-author of Climate Shock and author, most recently, of Geoengineering: the Gamble. Here you find my research, writings, and speaking engagements, my academic CV, and my current preoccupations. Follow me on Bluesky, Mastodon, or LinkedIn, or let me email you with the latest.
Science
Curbed/New York Magazine
Financial Times
Financial Times
Project Syndicate
Project Syndicate
May 2nd, 2025
April 22nd, 2025
March 28th, 2025
March 27th, 2025
March 15th, 2025
February 28th, 2025
Science
Working Paper
Columbia CaseWorks
Columbia CaseWorks
Columbia CaseWorks
Academia — like federal workers, and law firms, and ... — hang together, or most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
Wasting billions in taxpayer dollars to hand cash to shareholders of uneconomic coal companies.
Amazingly, he tried in 2016 and failed. Coal plants are even more uneconomic today.
https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-generate-81b46ce0-1480-11f0-b0be-5f481f1e3f3a.html
To everyone who's looking at the entirely self-inflicted tariff morass and thinking #degrowth, I'm afraid we tested that theory in May 2020.
Turns out going back into our caves isn't a way to lower temperatures https://gwagner.com/time-covid-climate
#climate #trump #uspol #economics
Pausing the World to Fight Coronavirus Has Carbon Emissions Down—But…
https://gwagner.com/time-covid-climateORF Thema
April 4th, 2025
April 2nd, 2025
March 25th, 2025
March 10th, 2025
March 6th, 2025
March 5th, 2025
February 13th, 2025
February 12th, 2025
February 3rd, 2025
Science
Curbed/New York Magazine
Financial Times
Financial Times
Project Syndicate
Project Syndicate
Science
Working Paper
Columbia CaseWorks
Columbia CaseWorks
Columbia CaseWorks
ORF Thema
April 4th, 2025
April 2nd, 2025
March 25th, 2025
March 10th, 2025
March 6th, 2025
March 5th, 2025
February 13th, 2025
February 12th, 2025
February 3rd, 2025
May 2nd, 2025
April 22nd, 2025
March 28th, 2025
March 27th, 2025
March 15th, 2025
February 28th, 2025
Academia — like federal workers, and law firms, and ... — hang together, or most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
Wasting billions in taxpayer dollars to hand cash to shareholders of uneconomic coal companies.
Amazingly, he tried in 2016 and failed. Coal plants are even more uneconomic today.
https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-generate-81b46ce0-1480-11f0-b0be-5f481f1e3f3a.html
To everyone who's looking at the entirely self-inflicted tariff morass and thinking #degrowth, I'm afraid we tested that theory in May 2020.
Turns out going back into our caves isn't a way to lower temperatures https://gwagner.com/time-covid-climate
#climate #trump #uspol #economics
Pausing the World to Fight Coronavirus Has Carbon Emissions Down—But…
https://gwagner.com/time-covid-climateCollected Essays
January 2024 (Austria, Germany, Switzerland)
Bilingual English & German edition.
188 pages, paperback
11,5 x 19 cm
ISBN 978-3-7011-0528-1
€17.50
