Climate Change - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2023
News

Clearing the Air

estimated ability to remove 40 million metric tons of CO2 from the atmosphere each year. Meanwhile, human activity adds about 51 billion tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere every year. The UN’s climate View Details

Keywords: April White and Dan Morrell; Illustrations by Richard Borge

22 Nov 2022
News

Alumni Summit Explores Leadership for a Sustainable Future

Delmotte, a senior scientist at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), “very clearly set the stakes” of climate impacts, while Pierre Vandier, head of the French... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

03 Dec 2015
Op-Ed

How "New Nuclear" Power Could Save the Planet—If Regulators Would Allow It

Leaders from some 150 nations have convened in Paris this week for the COP21 conference with a singular goal: to fight the global threat of climate change. Each of them have brought to Paris their own national plan for reducing greenhouse... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Lassiter; Energy

06 Nov 2012
Op-Ed

Stop Talking About the Weather and Do Something: Three Ways to Finance Sustainable Cities

private finance to invest in cities that are sustainable, competitive, and resilient. It's Not Just Global Warming, Stupid. Regardless of whether climate change leads to an increase in volatile weather, the... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities

02 Mar 2023
News

Carbon's Second Act

supporting these innovations to get across that Grand Canyon of death. DM: Which is good, Matheson notes, because the climate goals defined by the International Panel on Climate View Details

15 Feb 2023
News

Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains

That's when removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at scale becomes less a question of science and more a question of economics. The United Nations' climate change commission, the Intergovernmental... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

The Business Case (Or Not) for Sustainability

becoming increasingly aware that the viability of your business depends on dealing with climate change issues. But in the United States it can be politically risky for a CEO of a major company to take a... View Details

August 2024
Course Overview Note

Development while Decarbonizing: India's Path to Net-Zero

By: Vikram S Gandhi and Radhika Kak

Keywords: Decarbonization; Climate Change; India

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29 Apr 2020
Book

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

way to tell people, don't take on anything too big, too daunting because it's impossible. And so the person we talked about, Torsten Thiele, decided he could boil the ocean or actually he wanted to stop it from boiling. He was a climate... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

29 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control

pricing scheme, bond markets will be central to financing climate change and other environmental interventions. So-called green bonds appeal to investors who are looking for a safe place to park their money,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy; Utilities; Construction; Green Technology; Public Administration

17 Nov 2015
News

Carbon Neutral

HBS Business and Environment Initiative’s “Climate Change 101” The Kennedy School’s Harvard Project on Climate Agreements HBS Business and Environment Initiative’s website for alumni Follow the HBS Business... View Details

Keywords: Michael Blanding

December 2022 (Revised October 2023)
Supplement

Driving Decarbonization at BMW - Spreadsheet Supplement

By: Shirley Lu, George Serafeim and Michael W. Toffel

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September 2023
Supplement

Arcos Dorados: Decarbonizing McDonald’s in Latin America – Decarbonization Activities

By: George Serafeim and Michael W. Toffel

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30 Nov 2021
News

Cold Calculations

Courtesy Steve Payne The Arctic Ice Project is pursuing a radical solution to climate change: restoring the Arctic ice. “The project’s scientists believe that a thin layer of hollow glass microspheres—spread in strategic, limited... View Details

January 2024
Background Note

The Carbon Age

By: Gunnar Trumbull

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Educators

16 Feb 2023
News

Clearing the Air

Animation by Richard Borge Aaron Sabin (MS/MBA Candidate) HBS senior lecturer Jim Matheson Aaron Sabin (MS/MBA Candidate) HBS senior lecturer Jim Matheson Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix? The opportunity—and necessity—of carbon... View Details

30 Nov 2021
Blog Post

Searching for Professional Passion Through My VC Summer Internship

responsibility than ever before. Capitalism has played a pivotal part in creating societal problems ranging from climate change to curtailment of civil liberties. The next generation of business leaders must... View Details