I’m a climate economist at Columbia Business School and author of six books, including Climate Shock and, most recently, Geoengineering: the Gamble. Here you find my research, teaching, writing, speaking, and other current preoccupations.
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Coalbed methane is an underappreciated problem of global steel production. While cutting methane emissions in the steel supply chain will not produce green steel overnight, it could reduce the sector’s emissions by the equivalent of a billion tons of carbon annually, and at little cost.
A net-zero world by 2100 is likely inevitable, but the next decade will be critical for securing a livable future.
by Cody E. Finke, Theodore G. Albertson, Ian McKay, Aravindh Rajan, Eric McFarland, Annelise Gill-Wiehl, Daniel M. Kammen, and Gernot Wagner
Financial Times business school teaching case study
The YEARS Project mini-documentary
Projects (4 of 15)
Course syllabi, Columbia Business School case studies, teaching-related writings, and other teaching materials.
My monthly, globally syndicated column for Project Syndicate, translated into a dozen languages, and my earlier bi-weekly Risky Climate column for Bloomberg Green.
"An important read." (The Sunday Times) — "A stark warning." (The Guardian)
Read the NYT op-ed, the infamous pop quiz, our Salon feature, or Foreign Affairs and Atlantic essays. Watch the TEDx talk: “From Climate Shock to Geoengineering.”