This morning I was interviewed by TV4 about the op-ed in Dagens Nyheter (see below). The clip can be viewed here: .
Monthly Archives: August 2010
How to use 100bn climate change euros
Today I and Martin Ådahl publishes an on-ed in prominent Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter. The article discusses tax shifting, fiscal vs. corrective taxes and how governments can sensibly use the billions in new income that will soon start to flow…
Posted in Climate Change, FORES
SolarLease
An amazing new business model from the company SolarCity, the SolarLease, enables homeowners to get a state of the art solar energy system installed for $0 down payment. As a customer you rent the solar power system and only pay…
Posted in Climate Change, Miscellaneous
Climate science in crisis?
Yet another review of the quality of top climate change science institutions have been released in the wake of the Climategate “scandal” with the InterAcademy Council review of the IPCC. As expected, the review suggests important improvements to the process…
Posted in Climate Change
Incentives matter!
As an economist I know how much incentives matter and that a thorough analysis of incentives is paramount for understanding why and how people will react in different situations. Perhaps this innovative idea by the “Angry Green Girl” is something…
Posted in Climate Change
The true cost of oil
Just found a great and thought provoking article in Foreign Policy about the true cost of oil. Read it here. … An innovative approach comes from Roger Stern, an economic geographer at Princeton University who in April published a peer-reviewed…
Posted in Climate Change