By Chris Lang Peter Kalmus is a climate scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab. He has a refreshingly simple approach to the climate crisis. “Because burning fossil fuel is what’s causing global warming,” he writes on his website, “the central focus of my response is to avoid burning it!” He has reduced his own carbon…
Tag: Economics
Guest Post: Forests, carbon markets, and capitalism. How deforestation in Indonesia became a geo-political hornet’s nest
Dr Bernice Maxton-Lee is the author of Forest Conservation and Sustainability in Indonesia: A Political Economy Study of International Governance Failure, published in 2020 by Routledge. She submitted this Guest Post about deforestation in Indonesia.
For an economics that takes the climate science seriously
By Chris Lang In 2018, the economist William Nordhaus won the Nobel Prize in Economics. The prize was awarded to Nordhaus for “for integrating climate change into long-run macroeconomic analysis.”