Gernot Wagner

Work

Gernot Wagner, Ph.D., is an economist at EDF, where he works in the office of economic policy and analysis to advocate for market-based solutions to a wide range of environmental problems. His particular focus is on climate and energy economics.

He teaches energy economics as adjunct faculty at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs, and is the author of But Will the Planet Notice? (2011). He is a research associate at the Harvard Kennedy School and a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Background

Prior to EDF, Gernot worked for the Boston Consulting Group, focusing on the energy and sustainable development practice areas. He also wrote for the editorial board of the Financial Times in London as a Peter Martin Fellow, where he covered economics, energy and the environment.

• Ph.D., Political Economy and Government, Harvard University, 2007
• M.A., Political Economy and Government, Harvard University, 2006
• M.A., Economics, Stanford University, 2003
• A.B., Environmental Science and Public Policy, and Economics, Harvard University, 2002

Publications

Wagner, Gernot and Martin Weitzman. Playing God. Foreign Policy (2012).

Arunabha Ghosh, Benito Müller, William Pizer, and Gernot Wagner. Mobilizing the Private Sector: Quantity-Performance Instruments for Public Climate Funds (2012).

Wagner, Gernot (2011). But Will the Planet Notice? Hill and Wang.

Buchner, Barbara, Jessica Brown, Gernot Wagner, and Katherine Sierra. Improving the effectiveness of climate finance: A survey of leveraging methodologies (2011).

Chaum, Miriam, Chris Faris, Gernot Wagner, Barbara Buchner, Angela Falconer, Chiara Trabacchi, Jessica Brown, and Katherine Sierra. Improving the effectiveness of climate finance: Key lessons (2011).

Wagner, Gernot, and Richard Zeckhauser. "Climate Policy: Hard Problem, Soft Thinking." Climatic Change (2011). Print.

Wagner, Gernot. "Docking into a Global Carbon Market: Clean Investment Budgets to Encourage Emerging Economy Participation." Earth and Environmental Science IOP Conference 6 (2009). Print.

Wagner, Gernot. Undesirable Growth Fueled By Environmental Degradation. Publication. Harvard UP, 2005. Print.

Stavins, R., Gernot Wagner, and Alexander Wagner. "Interpreting Sustainability in Economic Terms: Dynamic Efficiency plus Intergenerational Equity." Economics Letters 79.3 (2003): 339-43. Print.