Showing posts with label climate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label climate. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Politics and science disagree about drinking and climate change...

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 It turns our that worries about drinking were just as woke about worries about climate change. The NYT has the story on drinking, CBS on cl...
Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Incinerating food aid

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 Here's a story from The Atlantic about a decision that captures the Trump administration's policies towards food aid, carbon emissi...
Monday, February 17, 2025

Climate crisis contributing to chocolate market meltdown

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 The canary in the coalmine that is climate change is starting to show important signs of stress. The Guardian has this story: Climate crisi...
Monday, January 1, 2024

Market design for the environment, by Cantillon and Slechten

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 Here's a recent NBER working paper, to start the year off on an optimistic note: MARKET DESIGN FOR THE ENVIRONMENT , by Estelle Cantill...
Friday, May 12, 2023

Market Shaping at the University of Chicago: Promoting needed innovation

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  One of many exciting talks yesterday at the first day of the New Directions in Market Design conferen ce was by U. Chicago's Rachel Gl...
Saturday, May 6, 2023

Wild coffee and climate change

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 Climate change is threatening coffee crops. But there are some wild variants that show signs of robustness:) The NYT has the story: What Cl...
Sunday, April 2, 2023

Blue water, green water and climate change

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 Much of the discussion of redesigning the markets for water focus on "blue water," i.e. surface water in rivers and lakes, and ru...
Tuesday, November 22, 2022

Lab grown meat: taking slaughter out of the food chain

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 Come a day, we'll be able to eat chicken meat that wasn't grown in a chicken... The Guardian has the story: US declares lab-grown m...
Saturday, May 7, 2022

Drought, hunger, and early marriage in Ethiopia

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 Sometimes the problem is hunger, and early marriage is seen as the solution. The Guardian has the story Ethiopian drought leading to ‘drama...
Sunday, June 13, 2021

Blame shifting in methane emission and climate change

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  Luke Coffman  had a paper in 2011 reporting an experiment in which a participant had an opportunity to play a dictator game with a second ...
Wednesday, March 24, 2021

Negotiating climate change, by Schmidt and Ockenfels in PNAS

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  Now that there's light at the end of the Covid tunnel, we can turn our attention back to big problems: Focusing climate negotiations o...
Wednesday, September 4, 2019

Marty Weitzman, 1942-2019

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For many years, Marty and I both had offices on the third floor of the Littauer building at Harvard.  I didn't know him well, but he wa...
Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Will we learn to handle immigration by the time sea levels rise?

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Below is a link to a 3-minute video of an interview (in English with Portuguese subtitles) that I gave some time ago on Portuguese TV, but ...
Monday, February 18, 2019

Carbon tax and dividend--now supported by 3300 economists from Aaron to Zykaj

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The Financial Times reports on the growing number of U.S. economists who support a carbon tax, with the money to be returned to citizens as...
Thursday, January 17, 2019

Carbon tax with revenue returned through equal lump-sum rebates: open letter

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An open letter from many economists, published today as an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, proposes a carbon tax with the revenue to be r...
Monday, December 14, 2015

Climate change agreement, on Bloomberg Surveillance this morning

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I discussed this weekend's climate change agreement on Bloomberg Surveillance from minute 33 to 41, which you can listen to here Downlo...
Friday, October 16, 2015

Climate negotiation design

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Axel Ockenfels writes: David MacKay, Peter Cramton, Steven Stoft and I published a comment on climate negotiation design today in Nature...