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Jam-packed schedule at today's Climate Tech conference at Columbia Business School. Room is packed already, too, but it's not too late to register to get first dibs on the recording https://business.columbia.edu/socialenterprise/research/symposia/climateconference/2024
This conference brings together academics, entrepreneurs, investors, and business leaders…
https://business.columbia.edu/socialenterprise/research/symposia/climateconference/2024The climate, it's telling us something: "A Year’s Worth of Rain Fell in Dubai on a Single Day"
The article? Entirely silent about it: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/16/world/middleeast/dubai-flooding-rain-oman.html
The United Arab Emirates had its largest rainfall in 75…
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Collected Essays
Jannuary 2024 (Austria, Germany, Switzerland)
Bilingual English & German edition.
188 pages, paperback
11,5 x 19 cm
ISBN 978-3-7011-0528-1
€17.50
"An important read." (The Sunday Times) — "A stark warning." (The Guardian)
24 September 2021 (UK), 5 November 2021 (US & Canada)
192 pages
138 x 216 mm / 5 x 9 in
ISBN Hardback 9781509543052
ISBN Paperback 9781509543069
$19.95
Ein Liebesbrief an die Stadt, einer ans Land, und einer ans Klima
Warum wir nur mit einem urbanen Leben die Erde retten
Brandstätter Verlag
8. Februar 2021
ISBN 978-3-7106-0508-6
Format 13,5 x 21 cm
Hardcover, 192 Seiten
Top 15 Financial Times McKinsey Business Book of 2015, Austria's Natural Science Book of 2017
Read the NYT op-ed, the infamous pop quiz, our Salon feature, or Foreign Affairs and Atlantic essays. Watch the TEDx talk: “From Climate Shock to Geoengineering.”
Now Available in Paperback
How smart economics can — must — save the world.
If you want to understand how an economist thinks about the biggest challenge our planet has ever stumbled up against, this book is an awfully good place to start!
