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- 14 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: SELCO - Last Mile Solar Powered Energy for Rural India
while aligning with the nation's ambitious goals for achieving net-zero emissions by 2070. Poor communities are usually at the receiving end of the worst impacts of climate change, coupled with unreliable... View Details
- 25 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #15: Hilton Augustine III on Financing Climate Ventures
2030 deadline to halve emissions. It’s important to note that the problem continues to compound until we get to net-zero or, better yet, net-negative emissions which we don’t expect to occur until around... View Details
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
corporate behavior through the tools of accounting, and to develop rigorous methodologies for assessing areas—such as carbon emissions generated, decarbonization efforts, or commitment to social justice—that are too often seen as either... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
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 View Details
- 27 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: HBS Visits Jindal Steel Works (JSW) Steel Dolvi Plant
through Dharavi slum near Mumbai The company shared a presentation on their sustainability initiatives followed by a Q&A session with the students. We learned that JSW Steel is targeting net-zero by 2050, more aggressive than the... View Details
- 17 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom
regulations raise the stakes for companies’ climate mitigation efforts by increasing company stakeholders’ ability to track their emissions trends and see who’s meeting and who’s missing their reduction targets. “A growing number of... View Details
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BiGS Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society
Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) The financial economics of sustainability and climate change As business strives to reduce carbon emissions and transition to clean energy, Gasparini plans to study the financial economics of... View Details
- 15 Feb 2023
- News
Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains
Frontier Carbon Solutions to store the CO2 captured by Project Bison underground. Wyoming's geology is great for that. And with the carbon dioxide sequestered underground, Carbon Capture Inc. can sell "engineered carbon removal credits"—which are offsets for companies... View Details
- 20 Mar 2019
- News
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
the front page of newspapers everywhere. We are past the 11th hour and, according to the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report, the impacts are worse than we thought and our window to avert the worst of climate change is narrower than... View Details
- 23 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
2024 Summer Internships in Business & Environment
Partners is a BlackRock and Temasek joint venture that will invest in the next generation of innovative decarbonization solutions and businesses to accelerate global efforts to achieve net-zero emissions by... View Details
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Global Climate Change
Emission: GHG Emissions Accounting 101 View Details
- 19 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2023: Business and Environment Ventures
food waste away from landfills by upcycling it into high-value sugar polymers using a combination of insects and microbial cell factories. PARTICIPANTS Algoma Homes - Josef Bromovsky (MBA 2023) - Algoma Homes designs and builds net-zero... View Details
- 04 Oct 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #10: Amanda Li (MBA 2018): Speeding Climate Change Solutions Through Project Finance Efficiencies
up hiring to take advantage of the tailwinds generated by the IRA. Amanda and her colleagues framed their funding needs, in part, around research by McKinsey that has shown that for the world to achieve net-zero View Details
- 12 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Electric Mobility in India
across the country. Transportation stands as one of the leading contributors to global emissions, trailing only behind the power and industrial sectors. Consequently, the widespread adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) for personal transportation is integral to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
net-zero emissions by 2050. To accomplish that, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has estimated the world needs an additional 10 billion tons of CO2 removed each year through... View Details
- 27 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: Driving India's EV Future: Insights from Ather Scooter and Exponent Energy
net-zero goals. Transportation is one of the largest contributors of carbon emissions in India. With 300 million 2- wheelers on the road, the vast majority powered by internal combustion engines (ICE), the... View Details
- 20 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: Building Resilience - Mumbai’s Journey to Sustainable Water Management
to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 while enhancing urban resilience. This forward-looking strategy underscores the city’s resolve to adapt to the changing climate while balancing the needs of its people... View Details
- 30 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Urban Adaptation in a Changing World
across the country. Urban Adaptation & Mumbai’s Climate Action Plan By 2030, India is expected to be the third largest economy in the world with a GDP of almost $8.5 trillion. Historically, countries have relied on emissions intensive... View Details
- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
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... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Toolbox: The Hopes and Hazards of Climate Intervention By Wake Smith (MBA 1986) Cambridge University Press Reaching net-zero emissions will not be the end of the climate struggle, but only the end of the... View Details