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- 07 Feb 2024
- News
Accountability of Corporate Emissions Reduction Targets
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
A Sustainable Solution for Fashion
emissions are produced by the industry, and the amount of textile waste generated each year could fill 20,000 football stadiums, Theuerkauf explains, adding that, “even in 2022, excess inventory is still put in landfills and burned.” To... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
net-zero emissions by 2040. In the interim, we are targeting absolute GHG reductions of more than 40 percent by 2030. From the way we source our crops to the energy we use in creating and distributing our... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
How to Take a Stand On UBS and Climate Change
emissions offsets. A 10 percent reduction would fall in line with industry practice and cost $3.7 to $5.9 million; 40 percent would provide an innovative, positive story for the public and cost $6.4 to $8.6... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Students Forecast Climate Change’s Impact
14.5% of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions are a result of livestock, and beef and dairy production account for 65% of livestock emissions.” Fix: Give Up Beef. “Given Shake Shack’s position as a mission-driven and fast-growing brand, and... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 17 Nov 2022
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Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
grid to reduce electric load. Monica Varman (MBA 2016) Partner, G2 Venture Partners The Inflation Reduction Act is a big deal, by every measure. It's the single largest investment ($350 billion) in reducing View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- News
Carbon Neutral
emission reductions than the current regulatory approach. To keep the United States competitive with other countries, the plan would include a simple provision to impose the fee at the border on any energy... View Details
Keywords: Michael Blanding
- 20 Mar 2019
- News
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
emissions reductions immediately, Henderson and the other speakers were optimistic that it is completely plausible to change today’s practices and norms. Despite ongoing debate about the cost of... View Details
- 15 Feb 2023
- News
Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains
windmills and if Project Bison will capture carbon dioxide produced in Wyoming, or emissions from everywhere. The answer to that last one: carbon dioxide disperses quickly through the atmosphere, so a View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
Locally Grown
usage and reductions in emissions. The company, founded in 2008, was making slow but steady progress retrofitting heavy fleet vehicles until the fall of 2017, recalls Fenwick-Smith, who sits on the board as executive chairman. That was... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Road Less Traveled
Most cars in the United States weigh more than 4,000 pounds, and new models are trending larger, even in countries where people drive less. And the larger the vehicle, the more fuel required to power it, which means more greenhouse-gas View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
thing—the silver lining for climate. On average, those reductions are projected to be somewhere between 5 to 10 percent for the year. Now those are really rough estimates, and we actually don't have really good tools or data on real... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Innovative Loan Fund Yields Big Returns
period projected at five years or less. Any Harvard unit or department may apply for the interest-free loans, which are repaid out of the savings generated by reductions in energy consumption, utility usage, and waste removal. HBS was one... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
MORE For a deeper dive, check out our three-part Skydeck podcast series on carbon capture. Skydeck podcast MORE For a deeper dive, check out our three-part Skydeck podcast series on carbon capture. Skydeck podcast When the United States Congress passed the Inflation... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
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Touting Green Energy’s Potential
reducing carbon emissions gradually to achieve an 83 percent reduction by 2050. The centerpiece of this legislative package is the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (known as the Waxman-Markey... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
continue to accrue, and sea levels will continue to rise. Even the urgent and utterly essential task of reaching net zero cannot be achieved rapidly by emissions reductions alone. To hasten net zero and... View Details
- 02 Feb 2023
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Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
government support as well, with the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act creating new tax credits for carbon capture. And, in December, the Department of Energy announced $3.7 billion worth of prizes and programs meant to further kick-start the... View Details