# Gernot Wagner

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Gernot Wagner, "Geoengineering: The Gamble" (Polity, 2021)

Stabilizing the world's climates means cutting carbon dioxide pollution. There's no way around it. But what if that's not enough? What if it's too difficult to accomplish in the time allotted or, worse, what if it's so late in the game that even cutting carbon emissions to zero, tomorrow, wouldn't …

6.16 – Geoengineering as a Last-Resort Climate Strategy with Climate Economist Dr. Gernot Wagner

In this special edition of Path to Zero, host Tucker Perkins sits down with Dr. Gernot Wagner—a prominent climate economist at Columbia Business School. The conversation spans teaching, cutting-edge policy, and controversial climate interventions like solar geoengineering, offering listeners deep i…

203: How Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill is The Undoing of Climate Progress

The Trump administration's "One Big Beautiful Bill" threatens to reverse years of clean energy progress and environmental protections, raising urgent concerns about climate policy and public health. In this special livestream episode of Climate Change with Matt Mattern, host Matt brings together a…

214: Why Renewables Are Beating Fossil Fuels on Cost with Dr. Gernot Wagner

Fact: According to an IRENA report on Reuters from mid-July, over 90% of new renewable projects are now cheaper than fossil fuel alternatives. Solar is 41% cheaper, and onshore wind is 53% cheaper than fossil fuel energy. The consumers are speaking up, and market dynamics are pushing the growth of …

#16 - "Technologies can only get better & cheaper"

Gernot Wagner, Climate Economist and Austro-American contributed to our Foundation 1.5 by joining Christian for a talk on Sustainable Investments, Technology Developments and the Climate Pendulum swinging.

How To Slow Climate Change: Loosely, In The Sky With Diamonds

Subscribe to LMSU’s Patreon for a sector plan BoCo bonanza!   All aboard folks! Team LMSU is continuing our BoCo odyssey, adventuring through each of the six sector decarbonisation plans. AND we’re bringing friends! That’s right, we’re calling in even nerdier reinforcements and experts to join us a…

Gernot Wager on Surviving Team Trump’s War on Climate “Endangerment”

I just had a truly helpful - and dare I say hopeful - pop-up conversation with Columbia University’s Gernot Wagner - a top-notch climate policy and economics analyst - on what to think and work on as the Trump Administration carries out its long-pledged plan to repeal the 2009 “Endangerment Finding…

Gernot Wagner: Follow the Money

In Net Zero Speaks, Columbia climate economist Gernot Wagner joins Ana Hanhausen to explain the economics behind the clean energy transition. He shows why electrification is accelerating, how policy sequencing and grid reform drive results, and what credible net zero investment looks like. He also…

#32 Dr. Gernot Wagner — Why Tipping Points Matter in Climate Economics

When economists model climate change, they often focus on how rising greenhouse gas emissions increase global temperatures and create economic damages. But the climate system is not always smooth or linear. Some systems may cross tipping points: thresholds beyond which change becomes abrupt, irreve…

What’s Stopping Us From Fighting Climate Change? | Gernot Wagner

Climate risk is getting worse, but many of the solutions are getting cheaper. The bigger challenge may no longer be inventing new technology, but deciding what to deploy, who pays for it, and which tradeoffs are actually worth making. Gernot Wagner, climate economist at Columbia Business School an…