Today, we present a guest post written by Jeffrey Frankel, Harpel Professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and formerly a member of the White House Council of Economic Advisers. A shorter version appeared at Project Syndicate.
Category Archives: environment
Climate Change and Mitigation Policies
Teaching Public Affairs 200 “Contemporary public policy issues” this semester, we had the good fortune to have a guest lecture by Greg Nemet (my colleague at La Follette, and a lead author on IWG3 Report of the IPCC Assessment Round 6) on Wednesday. He covered an enormous amount of material in one short lecture, here:
Global Climate Change: Some Links
The challenges of global climate change are with us, even if Russia’s aggression in central Europe is threatening to send the world economy into recession, and populations into starvation.
IPCC Projections and Simulations
The Economist has a summary of what yesterday’s IPCC report says. Here is a graphic that Deutsche Bank research is circulating.
What Would I Have Predicted for 2020 Acres Burned If I Had Looked at YTD Figures, One Year Ago?
If I didn’t know anything about the changing pattern of wildfire burns, I would’ve probably concluded “all clear”. To see this, consider the following picture I could’ve drawn a year ago:
Wildfires in 2021: Don’t Be Lulled Into Complacency by YTD Figures
The upward trend in acres burned is shown below.
Guest Contribution: “Will the Coronavirus Spur Action on Climate Change?”
Today, we present a guest post written by Jeffrey Frankel, Harpel Professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and formerly a member of the White House Council of Economic Advisers. A shorter version appeared in Project Syndicate and The Guardian.
Guest Contribution: “Carbon Prices, not Monetary Policies, Are the Tools to Fight Climate Change”
Today, we present a guest post written by Jeffrey Frankel, Harpel Professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and formerly a member of the White House Council of Economic Advisers. A shorter version appeared in Project Syndicate January 17th.
Guest Contribution: “How Solar Energy Became Cheap”
Today, we’re fortunate to present a guest contribution written by Greg Nemet, Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the La Follette School of Public Affairs and the Nelson Institute’s Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment. He has also been a contributor to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the Global Energy Assessment.
Glenn Rudebusch on “Climate Change and the Federal Reserve”
It doesn’t get much more real than this, when the Fed has to take into account the implications of global climate change. Glenn D. Rudebusch, senior policy advisor and executive vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, lays out the issues in this letter.