Principles for using market shaping to combat climate change

MSA team members William Arnesen (Policy Manager) and Professor Rachel Glennerster (Faculty Director) recently published a draft chapter in the National Bureau of Economic Research’s collected volume “New Directions in Market Shaping” entitled “Market Shaping for Climate Change.” The piece sets out: basic principles for when to use push and pull mechanisms for climate change, […]

Making concrete changes: why the cement and concrete industry is ripe for market-shaping

The world has made much progress towards decarbonizing our electrical and transportation sectors in recent years, with tens of billions of dollars worth of investment annually. Yet heavy industry and other industrial processes, which constitute roughly 30% of global greenhouse gas emissions, have received comparatively little attention. In particular it’s worth examining the cement and […]