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- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
guesses. But at the most extreme points, for instance, in April in the US we saw a reduction of closer to 20 to 30 percent of greenhouse gas emissions. And certainly at the peak in many countries the... View Details
- 07 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Obama’s Clean Power Plan: Can Nuclear Power Beat the Global Threat of Coal?
This week, President Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency released the final version of the Clean Power Plan, a major set of rules and incentives aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from America's power plants. The plan requires each state to meet a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Organic Matter
with nearly 30 times the heat-trapping powers of CO2—represents 10 percent of US greenhouse gas emissions; according to the EPA, dairies and other livestock operations account for a third of that amount.... View Details
- Fast Answer
Global Climate Change
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
host of the HBS Climate Rising podcast, will interview Erik Snyder (MBA 2009), cofounder and CEO of the Drawdown Fund, which invests growth capital to scale businesses that are reducing emissions or sequestering View Details
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Business and Climate Change Course | HBS Online
greenhouse gas emissions rise and different industries’ contributions Consider the implications of imperfect markets Understand command, control, and market-based mechanisms... View Details
- 18 Oct 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Venture Capital’s Disconnect with Clean Tech
sector. This is a big problem when product development cycles and election cycles don't mesh; government funding may be available with one administration and gone with the next. Consider California's Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, which mandates that the state's... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Batteries Included
airplanes. But maritime shipping has begun—slowly—to consider alternatives to fossil fuels. The body in charge of decarbonization in maritime shipping, the UN’s International Maritime Organization, has set a goal to cut the industry’s View Details
- 03 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Faculty Spotlight: Professor Jurgen Weiss
moving forward aggressively. The reality is that any reductions to our greenhouse gas emissions that we implement over the coming decades are going to lower the risks of... View Details
- 12 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Leapfrogging Traditional Agricultural Development in Africa
population will require significant agricultural development on the continent, which “[possesses] 65% of the Earth's uncultivated arable land.” Given the studied relationship between global food systems and greenhouse View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
is the Bakken formation, a 25,000-square-mile underground deposit that—thanks to a rise in fracking and new oil extraction technologies—has produced as much as 1 million barrels of oil and gas a day, or about the production equivalent of... View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
and Director, CarbonBuilt Given today's political realities, the "carrots"-focused climate provisions in the IRA are a huge win on our country’s journey towards net zero greenhouse gas View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
increase of greenhouse gas emissions, but also drive those emissions down to zero by 2050. Even then, we’re still going to have a huge amount of View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
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 View Details
- 22 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combatting Climate Change
cleaner, greener future for everyone on the planet. Rahul Shendure (MBA 2001) CEO and Director, CarbonBuiltGiven today's political realities, the "carrots"-focused climate provisions in the IRA are a huge win on our country’s journey towards net zero View Details
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Key Metrics | Annual Report 2024
48,244 32,735 40,754 51,025 Municipal Solid Waste (tons) 400 357 204 196 394 GHG Emissions is calculated using location-based reporting methodology. Harvard University follows The Climate Registry’s General Reporting Protocol for the... View Details
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
decades and accounts for roughly 5 percent of domestic US oil production. However, it's not particularly environmentally friendly: EOR companies mostly tap naturally occurring fields of CO2, transport the gas to the mature oil fields, and... View Details
- 23 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Oil Price Fallout: What Happens Next?
world economy, curtailed oil demand due to conservation efforts and concern about greenhouse gas emissions, and the fact that many countries have upped their domestic production and thus reduced their... View Details
- 1 PM – 2 PM EST, 03 Feb 2016
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Sustainable Capitalism: An Oxymoron?
In this talk, Professor Henderson will discuss both the risks and the tremendous opportunities inherent in harnessing the power of private enterprise to build a more sustainable world. She will also explore how people can hold the tension between the demands of the... View Details
- 02 Aug 2024
- HBS Case
How a Mission to Cut Food Waste Launched a Multimillion-Dollar Venture
items from being thrown into landfills, and 130 million pounds of greenhouse gas emissions from that food out of the atmosphere. “Josh made the decision to commit to an idea... View Details