Michaël Aklin

@aklin.bsky.social

Prof at EPFL | Policy & Sustainability lab (PASU) | Director at E4S

Interested in obstacles to fossil fuel phaseouts? I wrote a note at VoxEU on labor market problems faced by fossil fuel workers. Labor market frictions make it hard to provide new jobs. Place-based policies can mitigate the problem, but the risk of political failure is high.

Green jobs for fossil fuel workers: The implications of geography and skills for the clean energy tr...

In the absence of effective and cost-competitive carbon capture or removal technologies, a near complete phaseout of fossil fuels will be required to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions. This colu...

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