Thanks Emil! Sharing Emil's great thread on today's NYT piece & broad overview of how we come to this conclusion in the paper. It was a long effort to get here, am so happy to finally see all the results come together.

Excited to have the ECB account tweet out our new paper on European bank net zero commitments!

One of the lessons from the Tesla case in the MBA class I teach on climate finance is that business has to create *better products* that are also low carbon. Not enough people WTP a ‘greenium’ for decarbonization to happen everywhere it needs to.

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The data on P&C insurance is challenging. As my coauthors say, amazing info on their asset holdings, only rough aggregates for liabilities. To understand what’s going on, esp. with climate risk, we absolutely *need* better data.

Something like a public “HMDA” would be ideal.

Rant alert: please don't tell me you want to write a climate finance paper because it is a 'hot topic' in academia and 'will do well in conferences'. This really rubs me the wrong way.

And FWIW I study this because I think it's one of the great challenges of our time.

Could not agree more! Policy has its challenges for sure, but I also found it extremely inspiring

But they're BOTH so OLD! Gandalf can barely remember his passwords and even forgot that people called him Gandalf (yikes), while Saruman betrayed the Free Peoples of middle-earth and led an insurrection that stormed Helm's Deep. You can see how they're equally bad choices.

We have incessant newspaper coverage about the same thing. Newsflash: Biden is old! People, they are both really old!! They were both alive when you could go to the movies for 50 cents, Jim Crow was in full force, and India was still part of the British empire. OK, let's move on

So cool!! Wish this was around when I was a student. Quite a few recent JMPs on this reading list (including mine-- I'm grateful to say!). Just tells you so much of this work is new/emerging. Very exciting field to be in, and so great to see this collaboration across schools.

Excited to support Ashwin for the GA State Senate! He is thoughtful & brilliant — CS degree from Stanford, extensive work in cybersecurity, & a commitment to public service. The incumbent is a MAGA election-denier who’s been indicted.

Yet, it’s a close race,so spread the word!

Michael Greenstone starts out strong in his ASSA lecture. Climate change has indeed arrived (sad), but the good news is that, for the first time ever, we have federal climate policy!

I hope ASSA survives. But I wish it was like one week later. It's a great opportunity to see old colleagues in different schools that aren't in your direct subfield, but it isn't ideal that it's always the first weekend of the year.

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