Ted Nordhaus

Ted Nordhaus is an American author, environmental policy expert, and the director of research at The Breakthrough Institute. He was listed in Time magazine's Heroes of the Environment (2008), winner of the 2008 Green Book Award, co-editor of Love Your Monsters (2011) and co-author of Break Through (Houghton Mifflin 2007) and The Death of Environmentalism (2004). He and his co-author Michael Shellenberger were described by Slate Magazine as "ecomodernists" or "eco-pragmatists". In 2015, Nordhaus partnered with 18 other self-described ecomodernists to coauthor 'An Ecomodernist Manifesto.'

Nordhaus is director of research at the Breakthrough Institute, which he co-founded with Michael Shellenberger in 2003. Today, Breakthrough Institute consists of a policy staff, an annual conference, a policy journal, and a network of affiliated fellows.

Breakthrough Institute analyses of energy, conservation and innovation policy have been cited by US President Barack Obama.,National Public Radio the Wall Street Journal and C-SPAN.

Nordhaus has co-authored analyses of cap and trade climate legislation, of the "planetary boundaries" hypothesis,energy rebound from energy efficiency measures,carbon pricing, renewable energy subsidies,nuclear energy, and shale gas.

The Institute argues that climate policy should be focused on higher levels of public funding on technology innovation to "make clean energy cheap," and has been critical of climate policies like cap and trade and carbon pricing that are focused primarily on raising energy prices.

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