Is the Gulf of Mexico disaster a reason to pass climate legislation – or is that legislation largely irrelevant to curbing our oil use? A Greenwire article Tuesday quoted a number of economists...
Despite talk of a moratorium, the Interior Department’s Minerals and Management Service is still granting waivers from environmental review for oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, including wel...
https://lizstanton.wordpress.com/2010/05/25/socializing-risk-the-new-energy-economics/
Our team at SEI-U.S., led by Frank Ackerman, has just released a new model for climate change, mitigation investment, and development that highlights a major dilemma for industrialized countries....
https://lizstanton.wordpress.com/2010/05/05/climate-change-equity-and-optimal-investments/
My colleague (and blog contributor) Frank Ackerman has a new article on Grist that explains why the United States can’t afford to settle for the “social cost of carbon” estimate used in the...
https://lizstanton.wordpress.com/2010/04/24/a-calculation-we-must-get-right/
Paul Krugman’s excellent article in the New York Times Magazine this weekend contrasts a slow, incremental approach to greenhouse gas mitigation (such as William Nordhaus’ “climate-policy r...
https://lizstanton.wordpress.com/2010/04/09/big-bang-climate-economics/