Adam Tooze is the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History at Columbia University and the Director of Columbia's European Institute. His most recent book was Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World, and he is currently working on a history of climate crisis. You can follow him here.

December 8, 2022

Analysis

Money and the Climate Crisis

COP27 and financing the green transition

, Anna Gelpern, Avinash Persaud, Rishikesh Ram Bhandary, Brad Setser, Adam Tooze

The conclusion of COP27 reflected persisting uncertainties around coordinated global action towards decarbonization. Major agreements—including the establishment of a loss and damage fund—were reached, but the burden of mounting debt among global South countries continued to limit climate ambition. The…

June 18, 2021

Interviews

Investment and Decarbonization

A conversation on investment strategies for the green transition

, Tim Sahay, Adam Tooze, Daniela Gabor, Robert Hockett, Saule Omarova, Yakov Feygin

In late March, the Biden administration announced the $2 trillion American Jobs Plan, with approximately half of the sum dedicated to fighting the climate crisis. While the legislation would mark a sea change in federal action to avert climate catastrophe,…

June 13, 2020

Interviews

Trade Wars Are Class Wars

A discussion between Adam Tooze, Michael Pettis, and Matthew Klein

Michael Pettis and Matthew Klein's new book "Trade Wars Are Class Wars" begins with an epigraph from John A. Hobson: "The struggle for markets, the greater eagerness of producers to sell than of consumers to buy, is the crowning proof…