Gernot Wagner
Gernot Wagner | |
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Born | 1980 Austria |
Nationality | Austrian & American |
Spouse | Dr. Siripanth Nippita (m. 2002) climate economics |
School or tradition | environmental economics |
Alma mater | Harvard University Stanford University |
Doctoral advisor | Robert N. Stavins |
Influences | Nat Keohane Martin Weitzman Richard Zeckhauser |
Awards | Top 15 Financial Times-McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2015; Austrian of the Year 2022 |
Information at IDEAS / RePEc |
Gernot Wagner (1980 in Austria) is an Austro-American climate economist at Columbia Business School, where he is a tenured full professor.[2][3] He holds an AB and a PhD in political economy and government from Harvard University, as well as an MA in economics from Stanford University. A founding co-director of Harvard's Solar Geoengineering Research Program (2017-2019) [4] he joined the faculty of New York University in 2019, moving to Columbia University in 2022.[5][6] Wagner writes a monthly column for Project Syndicate, and is the co-author, with Martin L. Weitzman, of Climate Shock,[7] a Top 15 Financial Times-McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2015.[8] He won the "Austrian of the Year" award in 2022, awarded by Austrian daily Die Presse.[9]
Climate and energy policy
Wagner was an economist at the Environmental Defense Fund from 2008 to 2014 and lead senior economist from 2014 to 2016.[7][10] While there he was a member of the faculty of the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, and he wrote Climate Shock (2015), a book emphasizing the importance of risk and uncertainty for prompting action on climate change.[11][12][13] Wagner was a member of the six-person lead author team, including Suzi Kerr, that wrote the World Bank's Emissions Trading in Practice : A Handbook on Design and Implementation.[14]
"Risk" and "uncertainty" in climate change are often mentioned as reasons to delay action. Wagner's Climate Shock, joint with
Geoengineering
Wagner was the founding co-director, joint with
On November 23, 2018, Wagner published an open-access article on "Stratospheric aerosol injection tactics and costs in the first 15 years of deployment."
Books
Gernot Wagner has written five books:
- 2003: Der Rest der Welt. Ein Reiseführer für überzeugte Daheimbleiber, Wien, Ueberreuter-Verlag 2003, ISBN 3-8000-3957-5
- 2011: But Will The Planet Notice?. New York, Hill & Wang/Farrar Straus & Giroux, ISBN 0-8090-5207-5
- 2015: Climate Shock, joint with Top 15 Business Book of the Year 2015. Translated into several languages, including German, which has been awarded Austria's Natural Science Book of the Year 2017.)
- 2021: Stadt, Land, Klima: Warum wir nur mit einem urbanen Leben die Erde retten, Brandstätter 2021, ISBN 978-3-7106-0508-6. [German: "City Country Climate"]
- 2021: Geoengineering: The Gamble, Wiley 2021, ISBN 1509543058[24]
Family
Wagner has been married since 2002 to Dr. Siri Nippita, a gynecologist at
See also
References
- ^ a b Steinhardt, Jenifer (5 June 2002). "Love Stories: International Affairs". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
- ^ "Gernot Wagner - Project Syndicate". www.project-syndicate.org. Retrieved October 12, 2022.
- ^ Gaulhofer, Karl (28 August 2017). "Für Pessimismus ist es zu spät" (in German). No. Alpbach. Die Presse. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
- ^ a b Ramachandran, Akshitha (17 April 2017). "Harvard Researchers Launch Solar Geoengineering Moonshot". www.thecrimson.com. The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
- ^ Cohen, Joyce (September 5, 2019). "They Wanted a Downtown Loft With Few Walls. Which One Would You Choose?". The New York Times. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
- ^ "Gernot Wagner Columbia Business School profile". gsb.columbia.edu. Retrieved 12 October 2022.
- ^ a b c Lieberman, Bruce (2 November 2016). "Geoengineering: crazy...with a big 'but' » Yale Climate Connections". Yale Climate Connections. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
- ^ "Gernot Wagner | Harvard Kennedy School". www.hks.harvard.edu.
- ^ Marits, 21 10 2022 um 09:55 von Mirjam (2022-10-21). ""Das ist erst der allererste Anfang"". Die Presse (in German). Retrieved 2023-05-10.
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: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Meyer, Robinson (29 June 2017). "The American South Will Bear the Worst of Climate Change's Costs". The Atlantic.
- ISSN 0022-0515.
- ^ Chait, Jonathan. "What If Climate Scientists Are Guessing Wrong?". Daily Intelligencer. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
- ^ Clark, Pilita (29 March 2015). "'Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet', by Gernot Wagner and Martin Weitzman". Financial Times.
- doi:10.1596/23874.
- ^ Nordhaus, William D. (4 June 2015). "A New Solution: The Climate Club". The New York Review of Books.
- ^ "The High Cost of Climate Uncertainty". Ideas & Insights. Columbia Business School. 3 February 2015. Retrieved 20 December 2017.
- ^ Meyer, Robinson (25 January 2018). "What Happens If We Start Solar Geo-Engineering—and Then Suddenly Stop?". The Atlantic. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
- ^ Beaumont, Hilary (22 November 2017). "Chemtrails conspiracy theorists are sending death threats to climate scientists". VICE News.
- ISSN 2055-1045.
- ISSN 1748-9326.
- ^ Carrington, Damian (23 November 2018). "Solar geoengineering could be 'remarkably inexpensive' – report". the Guardian.
- ^ Robinson, Matthew (23 November 2018). "Dimming the sun: The answer to global warming?". CNN.
- ^ Montlake, Simon (23 January 2020). "Should we fiddle with Earth's thermostat? This man might know how". The Christian Science Monitor.
- OCLC 1230230935.)
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link - ^ Postl, Elisabeth (22 August 2017). "Kulturkampf um den Kreißsaal" (in German). No. Alpbach. Die Presse. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
- ^ Cohen, Joyce (5 September 2019). "They Wanted a Downtown Loft With Few Walls. Which One Would You Choose?". The New York Times.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-03-05.