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practices and inadequate controls have led to extensive trading of carbon offset instruments that do not materially reduce the supply of atmospheric GHG. We introduce five View Details
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Blog - Business & Environment
India 2024 - Development While Decarbonizing: India’s Path to Net Zero MBA Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - How to Build a Culture of Intrapreneurship Maxim Pike Harrell 14 May 2024 | Creating Emerging Markets Opportunity to View Details
- 07 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Deconstructing LEGO’s Decarbonization
their current carbon footprint, it’s unclear how reliant on offsets the company will have to be to neutralize the fossil-based energy for their own factories and operations. It’s even harder to see a viable...
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- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do...
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Baker Library / Bloomberg Center | About
city’s resurgence. He spearheaded the rebuilding of Lower Manhattan, fought poverty with new programs that became national models, and turned around a failing school system. He also reduced carbon emissions by 13 percent, increased New...
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- 10 Jun 2022
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New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures
the glasses to the eco-friendly packaging used to ship them. The drinking glasses are sturdy, compact, and Montessori-friendly. Since we promote zero-waste life, they are shipped in carbon-neutral packaging. Moreover, each purchase includes additional View Details
- 18 Apr 2011
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Capitalism Meets Conservation
compensate for carbon emitted elsewhere. Patagonia Sur partners with corporations, families, and academic institutions to offset all or a portion of their carbon footprint. HBS...
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- 21 Feb 2018
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Can Farming Save the Planet?
Wiviott. “We’re the first scalable version of this model. Because it’s bigtime American agriculture, we can do a series of these $100 million funds. Each fund is the equivalent carbon offset as if we had...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Spring Reunions
first weekend in June to enjoy a varied program of events. Alumni attended some 70 panels and presentations as well as a number of class-specific academic offerings. Returnees could also offset their carbon...
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- 26 Oct 2017
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Can Farming Save the Planet?
interest in the health of the soil. “If you restore soil and agriculture and don’t use chemical fertilizers to grow crops, and you change your tilling practices, if you did this with one in five farms around the world, you would capture enough View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
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Clean Slate
For the Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport), the pandemic opened up the rare opportunity to rethink “everything we do and how we do it,” says CEO Lisa Wieland (MBA 2001). The independent public authority that owns and operates the Port of Boston and three regional...
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- 01 Jun 2017
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Starting Lineup: Values Proposition
Grow-Trees sends an e-card and plants and maintains trees in India in honor of special occasions (or to offset your carbon footprint). In six years, Grow-Trees has reforested more than 4,000 acres of land in...
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- 01 Dec 2017
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The Business Case (Or Not) for Sustainability
offsets such as investing in reforestation projects to counteract the carbon that’s released from the energy that heats, cools, and electrifies their buildings. But what everyone needs to remember is that’s...
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Global Climate Change
vertical-align:top; white-space:normal; padding-top:1px; padding-right:1px; padding-left:1px; border-top:none; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black">Data: Green Bond / Carbon View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
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The Sparkles in Our Skies
carbon offsets to account for the energy used in transportation and logistics. “Our diamonds are carbon negative, but as a company we’re currently carbon-neutral,” Hagemann...
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- 15 Feb 2023
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Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains
Photo credits: Meghan Kenny and Jonas Lee Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Meghan Kenny: Our prototype is called Hobbes. All of our major pieces of equipment are named after cartoon characters. Hobbes's predecessor is actually named...
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- 06 May 2022
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Career Advice: Starting a Sustainable Startup
measuring forest carbon stocks to foster trust in the forest carbon offset market. At Harvard, we’ve benefited from an array of resources, like the Rock Accelerator and the...
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- 01 Mar 2023
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Clearing the Air
MORE For a deeper dive, check out our three-part Skydeck podcast series on carbon capture. Skydeck podcast MORE For a deeper dive, check out our three-part Skydeck podcast series on carbon capture. Skydeck podcast When the United States Congress passed the Inflation...
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Ben Steiner
Princeton and with TARP, Ben has interned with the Clinton Foundation, where he spent six weeks in Malawi helping farmers form a collective for greater market power; and two weeks in Rwanda, facilitating a carbon-exchange program: European companies would obtain View Details
- 06 Jan 2012
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Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
impossible feat, claimed by a growing number of companies, is achieved by calculating the greenhouse-gas emissions of the organization's operations, investing in energy efficiency and other methods to reduce those emissions, and purchasing View Details