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"Paths to Sustainable Power," Project Syndicate, March 28, 2013.
"A Better Way to Fight Climate Change," Project Syndicate, February 28, 2013. Download as [PDF]
"America’s New Progressive Era?" Project Syndicate, January 31, 2013. Download as [PDF]
"Writing the Future," Project Syndicate, January 24, 2013. Download as [PDF]
"Obama Has Four Years to Fix the Economy," Financial Times, November 11, 2012. [Download as PDF]
"Attention, Mr. President: No Politics, Just Our Solutions — Saving the Climate," Parade, November 4, 2012. Download as [PDF]
"Green Growth and Equity in the Context of Climate Change: Some Considerations," with Shiv Someshwar. ADBI Working Paper Series 371, July 2012. Download as [PDF]
"Our Summer of Climate Truth," Project Syndicate, July 27, 2012. Download as [PDF]
"A Rio Report Card," Project Syndicate, June 18, 2012. Download as [PDF]
"From Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals," The Lancet, June 9, 2012. Download as [PDF]
"Sustainable Humanity," Project Syndicate, January 31, 2012. [Download as PDF]
"The Murdoch Legacy," Huffington Post, October 10, 2011. [Download as PDF]
"In the Front Line," Our Planet, September 2011. [Download as PDF]
"A New Path to a Low-Carbon Economy," Project Syndicate, October 27, 2010. [Download as PDF]
"Growth in a Buddhist Economy," Project Syndicate, August 25, 2010. [Download as PDF]
"Making Sense of the Climate Impasse," Huffington Post, August 2, 2010. [Download as PDF]
"Sow the seeds of long-term growth." Financial Times, July 21, 2010. [Download as PDF]
"Fixing the Broken Government Policy Process." Scientific American. February 2010. [Download as PDF]
"Hold the rich nations to their word," Financial Times, 16 December 2009. [Download as PDF]
"End the Politics -- Let Scientists and Engineers Lead," Huffington Post, 3 December 2009. [Download as PDF]
"Enough posturing politics. Time to let the experts lead." The Guardian. 2 December 2009. [Download as PDF]
"Transgressing Planetary Boundaries," Scientific American, December 2009. [Download as PDF]
"A Clunker of a Climate Policy." Scientific American. November 2009. [Download as PDF]
"It's too late to seal a global climate deal. But we need action, not Kyoto II." The Guardian. 30 September 2009.
"Still Needed: A Climate Plan", Scientific American, July 2009
"Still Needed: A Climate Plan." Scientific American. July 2009.
"Putting a Price on Carbon: An Emissions Cap or a Tax?" Yale Environment 360. 7 May 2009. [Download as PDF]
"3 billion poor people need world's help." CNN.com. 20 March 2009. [Download as PDF]
"Transforming the Auto Industry." Scientific American. February 2009. [Download as PDF]
"Eight Principles for a Global Agreement on Climate Change." COP15 UN Climate Change Change Conference Blog. 28 January 2009. [Download as PDF]
"Using Carbon Taxes to Pay for Development." Financial Times. 24 September 2008. [Download as PDF]
"Climate Change: feed it and weep, or lead and reap." Sydney Morning Herald. 25 July 2008. [Download as PDF]
"A User's Guide to the Century." The National Interest. 2 July 2008. [Download as PDF]
"Less talk, more action needed." The Guardian. 25 June 2008.
"Technological Keys to Climate Protection." Scientific American. March 2008. [Download as PDF]
"Climate Change after Bali." Scientific American. February 2008. [Download as PDF]
"Meaningful Goals for Climate Talks." Scientific American. December 2007. [Download as PDF]
"Climate Change and the Law." Scientific American. November 2007. [Download as PDF]
"Making Development Less Risky." Scientific American. August 2007. [Download as PDF]
"Climate Change Refugees." Scientific American. June 2007.
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"The Road to Clean Energy Starts Here." Scientific American. May 2007.
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"A Climate For Change." TIME Magazine. 8 March 2007.
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"Moving Beyond Kyoto." Scientifc American. February 2007.
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"Fiddling While the Planet Burns." Scientific American. October 2006.
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"Ecology and Political Upheaval." Scientific American. July 2006.
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"The New Geopolitics." Scientific American. June 2006.
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"Pay for it Now, or Pay for it Later." The Globe and Mail. 19 June 2006.
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"Investments Toward Sustainable Development," with Walter V. Reid. Science, Vol. 312. 19 May 2006.
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"A Robust Strategy for Sustainable Energy," with Klaus Lackner. Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Issue 2. 2005.
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The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time, The Penguin Press: New York, 2005.
Investing in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals, UN Millennium Project, (Director), Earthscan: New York, 2005.
“We Can End World Hunger: Here’s How,” with Pedro Sanchez, World Ark, November/ December 2004.
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"Seeking a Global Solution: The Copenhagen Consensus neglects the need to tackle climate change," Nature, August 12, 2004.
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"Sustainable Development," Science, April 30 2004.
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"Getting Through the Bottleneck," Our Planet: The Magazine of the UNEP, Vol. 13 No 4. (2003 Issue: Globalization, Poverty, Trade, and the Environment) [Download as PDF]
"Compensation for 'Meaningful Participation' in Climate Change Control: A Modest Proposal and Empirical Analysis" with T. Panayotou and A. Peterson Zwane, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 43, pp. 437-454, 2002.
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"Reducing the Vulnerability to Natural Disasters: Hurricane Mitch and Central America," with Juan Carlos Barahona, Eduardo Doryan and Felipe B. Larrain Economic Development in Central America, Vol. II: Structural Reform edited by Felipe B. Larrain. Harvard University Press, 2001.
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"The Geography of Poverty and Wealth," with Andrew D. Mellinger and John L. Gallup. Scientific American. March 2001.
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"Climate, Coastal Proximity, and Development," with Andrew Mellinger and John Gallup in Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography, edited by Gordon L. Clark, Maryann P. Feldman, and Meric S. Gertler, Oxford University Press, 2000.
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(Previously "Climate, Water Navigability, and Economic Development," with Andrew Mellinger and John Gallup, CID Working Paper No. 24, September 1999. [PDF])
"Agriculture, Climate, and Technology: Why are the Tropics Falling Behind?" with John Luke Gallup, American Journal of Agricultural Economics. Vol. 82, pp. 731-777, August 2000.
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"Developing Countries and the Control of Climate Change: A Theoretical Perspective and Policy Implications," with Theodore Panayotou and Alix Peterson. HIID CAER II Discussion Paper No. 44, November 1999. [Download as PDF]
"Developing Countries and the Control of Climate Change: Empirical Evidence" with Theo Panayotou and Alix Peterson, CAER II Discussion Paper No. 45, August 1999. CC [Download paper as PDF]
"Developing Countries and the Control of Climate Change: A Theoretical Perspective and Policy Implications," with Theo Panayotou and Alix Peterson, prepared for UNAID/CAER II, CAER II Discussion Paper No. 44, August 1999. [Download paper as PDF]
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