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Associate Professor of Economic Geography, Trinity College Dublin

Central banks could be doing more to help green industries. Jane Rix / shutterstock

January 4, 2024

Central banks should be fighting the climate crisis – here’s why

Martin Sokol, Trinity College Dublin and Jennie C. Stephens, Northeastern University

A focus on economic stability in the near-term makes the climate crisis worse in the long-term.

A wildfire during hot, dry conditions in August 2023 destroyed Lahaina, Hawaii, and devastated Maui’s tourism industry – the heart of its economy. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

November 29, 2023

Why the Fed should treat climate change’s $150B economic toll like other national crises it’s helped fight

Jennie C. Stephens, Northeastern University and Martin Sokol, Trinity College Dublin

Fed Chair Jerome Powell bristles at talk of managing climate change, but the damage it is doing the US economy is hard to ignore, as the latest National Climate Assessment shows.

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