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- 21 Oct 2022
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Climate Regulations Are About to Disrupt Global Shipping
- 09 Apr 2014
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Progress on sustainability
- 09 Dec 2015
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The US advantage at Paris climate talks
- 24 Sep 2014
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We Don’t Have to Ditch Capitalism to Fight Climate Change
- 14 Nov 2019
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Making the Food of the Future
- 10 Mar 2022
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Business Schools Teaching Sustainability Want to Go Green
- 01 Jun 2023
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Curb Appeal
Jessica Tisch (JD/MBA 2008) has a problem. And she couldn’t be happier about it. It’s a chilly February morning in Lower Manhattan, and Tisch, who was appointed commissioner of the Department of Sanitation (DSNY) last April, has only hours to pivot the world’s largest...
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- 01 Dec 2023
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Elevator Pitch: Feedback
mills. The Why: Of the 110 million tons of food waste generated annually in the United States, 75 percent ends up in landfills or incinerators, making it a leading source of CO2 emissions (10 percent of greenhouse gasses can be attributed...
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- 01 Dec 2023
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Rounding the Bend
greenhouse gas emissions. There’s also rampant waste and pollution involved in making the clothes we wear—two-thirds of which, after being jettisoned from our closets, get tossed into landfills or incinerated. Shifting from that linear...
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- 01 Sep 2023
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In My Humble Opinion: Futures Investor
and business leaders with economic stakes in carbon-based energy need to get better at listening and talking to each other. Respectful dialogue is the only way to identify common interests.” The real cost: “To reach global net zero on carbon by 2050, the United States...
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- 01 Jun 2023
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Batteries Included
economy.” Globally, shipping transports more than 10 billion metric tons of cargo each year. According to Yale Climate Connections, almost all of these ships run on fossil fuels and emit carbon pollution. Maritime shipping causes about 3 percent of global View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
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A Sustainable Solution for Fashion
Ferdinand Stockmann (MBA 2021) and James Theuerkauf (MBA 2021) Photo courtesy Syrup Tech Fashion is one of the most polluting industries in the world, says James Theuerkauf (MBA 2021), who worked in McKinsey’s retail sector before attending HBS. More than 8 percent of...
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- 12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
Michael Skelly (MBA 1991) CEO, Grid United Rise Above Corporate Interests BIO Climate change is upon us. If we are lucky, governments will pull together and create policies to reduce emissions and bend the curve of ever-increasing View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
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A Wonderful Whirl
Mounted atop the Soldiers Field Park Garage, two wind turbines — 40-foot towers with 11.5-foot blades — represent Harvard’s biggest wind-energy project to date. Weighing more than 1,000 pounds each, the turbines are expected to supply 5 to 10 percent of the seven-story...
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- 25 Apr 2014
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Taking up the issue of climate change
countries of the world to somehow reduce the emission of greenhouse gasses," says Horn, whose two daughters are also environmental activists. "We want to leave a world to our children that is in balance and that is sustainable for...
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- 02 Feb 2023
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Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
investments signal a real urgency. Jim Matheson: I think in the last 10 years, we've seen now not only the measurable rise of greenhouse gas emissions, we've seen the good work of the IPCC, the International Panel on Climate Change and...
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- 25 Aug 2022
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Clean Slate
announced a $1 billion plan to ensure that by the time Massport celebrates its 75th anniversary, in 2031, it will have reached net-zero status. The plan aligns with a Massachusetts law requiring statewide net-zero greenhouse gas emissions...
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- 26 Aug 2020
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What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
shifting carbon footprint when they have a big life event? Jen Flint: One of the side effects of this crisis has been that we all abruptly stopped getting in our cars and boarding airplanes, we stopped all kinds of activities that also had the effect of reducing our...
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- 15 Oct 2019
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Examining Climate Change From a Business Perspective
description of the euphoric moment in Paris on December 12, 2015, when delegates from around the world jumped from their seats, “crying, clapping, screaming” in celebration of their collective agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions...
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- 21 Nov 2017
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Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
going to get cheaper, and storage is going to get cheaper. “Coal is not going to get developed, because it will be more costly than the alternatives. Greenhouse gases are going to be an issue, but economics will be the primary factor...
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