Moreno-Cruz, Juan B.; Wagner, Gernot; Keith, David W. (2017): An Economic Anatomy of Optimal Climate Policy. (HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series, RWP17-028).

"This paper introduces geoengineering into an optimal control model of climate change economics. Together with mitigation and adaptation, carbon and solar geoengineering span the universe of possible climate policies. We show in the context of our model that: (i) a carbon tax is the optimal response to the unpriced carbon externality only if it equals the marginal cost of carbon geoengineering; (ii) the introduction of solar geoengineering leads to higher emissions yet lower temperatures, and, thus, increased welfare; and (iii) solar geoengineering, in effect, is a public goods version of adaptation that also lowers temperatures."

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Solano Rodriguez, Baltazar; Drummond, Paul; Ekins, Paul (2016): Decarbonizing the EU energy system by 2050. An important role for BECCS. In Climate Policy 17 (sup1), S93-S110. DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2016.1242058.

"This article examines the implications for the EU’s energy system if an 80% reduction in CO₂ emissions is to be achieved by 2050 against 1990 levels, using the European TIMES Model (ETM-UCL) to project a least-cost pathway that meets this CO₂ constraint (‘Policy Success’), along with milestone targets for 2020. A Reference scenario (no CO₂ constraints post-2020) was analysed to allow for comparison."

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Gunderson, Ryan; Stuart, Diana; Petersen, Brian (2017): Ideological obstacles to effective climate policy. The greening of markets, technology, and growth. In Capital & Class 2 (7), 030981681769212. DOI: 10.1177/0309816817692127.

"In light of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, this project synthesizes and advances critiques of the possibility of a sustainable capitalism by adopting an explicit ‘negative’ theory of ideology, understood as ideas that conceal contradictions through the reification and/or legitimation of the existing social order. Prominent climate change policy frameworks – the ‘greening’ of markets (market-corrective measures), technology (alternative energy, energy efficiency, and geoengineering), and growth (the green growth strategy) – are shown to conceal one or both of the two systemic socio-ecological contradictions inherent in the current social formation."

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Altvater, Elmar (2016): The Capitalocene, or, Geoengineering against Capitalism’s Planetary Boundaries. In Jason W. Moore (Ed.): Anthropocene or Capitalocene? Nature, history, and the crisis of capitalism. Oakland, CA: PM Press (Kairos), pp. 138–152.

"Today’s great questions are about how capitalism works through, and actively creates, planetary nature."

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