
Getting the Social Cost of Carbon Right
Feb 15, 2021 & urge the Biden administration to put a higher price on greenhouse-gas emissions than its predecessors.
Nicholas Stern, a former chief economist of the World Bank (2000-03) and co-chair of the international High-Level Commission on Carbon Prices, is Professor of Economics and Government and Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics.
Feb 15, 2021 & urge the Biden administration to put a higher price on greenhouse-gas emissions than its predecessors.
Oct 4, 2019 warns that our future now depends on how much we reduce greenhouse-gas emissions in the next two decades.
Nov 12, 2015 charts the rich countries' progress toward helping the world's poor fight global warming.
Aug 5, 2015 & say that conditions are ripe to expand access to electricity while fighting climate change.
Jul 23, 2014 & praise the Chinese authorities for their efforts to fight global warming.
Many would regard the middle of a pandemic-induced economic crisis as the wrong time to sound the alarm about the potential dangers of profligate government spending. But as US President Joe Biden’s proposed $1.9 trillion economic rescue plan works its way through Congress, it is not only Republicans who are asking whether providing too much fiscal stimulus could be just as risky as delivering too little.