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- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
dioxide from the air or from emission stacks. But there are very few people trying to figure out how to actually use renewable energy to convert carbon dioxide into the... View Details
- 29 Jul 2021
- News
A Clean Start
Todd Brix (MBA 1997, Baker Scholar), a chemical engineer and businessman who spent 18 years at Microsoft, wanted to come up with a solution to one of the biggest challenges facing the world today: What to do with all the carbon View Details
- 17 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom
As investor pressure mounts on companies to show their environmental impacts, leaders are encountering an unwieldy tangle of terms and approaches. Climate accounting basics and a dictionary of sorts can help demystify the calculations and voluntary targets that... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 06 May 2025
- Blog Post
The Incredible Land of Ice and Fire: Exploring Iceland's Renewable Energy Model for a Changing Planet
Climeworks began in 2017. So, those carbon dioxide removal (CDR) credits certified under the Puro Standard mentioned earlier are the result of this power duo: CO captured by... View Details
- 03 Aug 2020
- News
A Clean Start
Scientists, world leaders, and corporations have spent billions trying to harness carbon-dioxide output in order to combat climate change. So far, they’ve figured out how to capture it, but not what to do with it. Todd Brix (MBA 1997) reckoned there must be some way to... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- Web
2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
emerging examples of innovative technologies, financing structures, policies, and geo-politics that are reshaping our global economy as it struggles and strives to transition to a lower carbon footprint and unlock the trillions in... View Details
- 15 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Navigating the Future of Renewable Energy at Port Esbjerg
national CO2 taxes, voluntary carbon credits, or carbon dioxide removal credits as potential sources of revenue. Legacy Industries in a... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
A Climate Change Optimist
power of consumers, investors, and businesses to create systems-level solutions. “On climate, it’s simple,” says Gravitz, “Stop putting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and draw what’s there back down.”... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photo by Seth Lowe
- 04 Aug 2023
- Blog Post
Four Remarkable Stories of HBS MBA Students Tackling Climate Change
challenges. In this article, we are sharing four of their remarkable stories. View Video Tackling climate change through innovation It’s not news that carbon dioxide emissions are a global concern in the... View Details
- 05 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
Corporate Leaders Need to Step Up on Climate Change
Green initiatives are ubiquitous these days, implemented with zeal at companies like Dupont, IBM, Walmart, and Walt Disney. The programs being rolled out—lighting retrofits, zero-waste factories, and carpool incentives—save money and provide a green glow. Most large... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
The Sparkles in Our Skies
Illustration by Brian Stauffer Illustration by Brian Stauffer Aether Diamonds makes its precious gems out of thin air—literally. The three-year-old company uses carbon dioxide drawn from the atmosphere to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Making a Difference in the World
organizations waste $2.8 billion every year powering unused PCs. In 2009, these unused PCs emitted approximately 20 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent — equal to the annual emissions of 4 million... View Details
- 27 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
HBS Alumni and Students Take On the Climate Crisis
(MBA 1980), president and CEO of the Washington, D.C.–based nonprofit Green America, leverages the economic power of consumers, investors, and businesses to create systems-level solutions. “On climate, it’s simple,” says Gravitz, “Stop putting View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Climate change as must-see TV
When a Hawaiian observatory reported in 2013 that carbon dioxide levels in Earth’s atmosphere had reached their highest point in some 3 million years, many people concluded that climate change was... View Details
- 21 Feb 2018
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
reliance on petroleum-based fertilizers and sequestering large amounts of carbon dioxide in the ground. With his extensive background in green businesses, finance, and turnarounds, it seems almost inevitable... View Details
- 26 Oct 2017
- News
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
- 22 Apr 2020
- Research Event
How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities
culminated in a session about some of the innovative technologies that are emerging to address climate change, with presentations from the leaders of Indigo Agriculture, Form Energy, Carbon Cure, and Carbon... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Good Day Sunshine
implement the $365,000 project. Robertson and Cook, copresidents of the HBS Sustainable Development Society, say the panels will provide 15 to 25 percent of Shad’s daily electricity needs and eliminate carbon View Details
- 17 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
From the Panelists: Toward a Decarbonized Future: Who Pays? Who Profits?
capital, project management expertise and domain knowledge of corporations to work on financing and de-risking the various solutions for climate change. 2. Rather than companies acting individually, we need to engage the whole value chain to address the challenges. 3.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Going Green at HBS
conservation, eliminate the potential annual discharge of some 1,000 tons of carbon dioxide into the environment. Also at HBS, the Hamilton Hall renovation project, begun this past summer, is using “green”... View Details