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- 09 Dec 2015
- News
The US advantage at Paris climate talks
- 09 Apr 2014
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Progress on sustainability
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Futures Investor
and business leaders with economic stakes in carbon-based energy need to get better at listening and talking to each other. Respectful dialogue is the only way to identify common interests.” The real cost: “To reach global net zero on carbon by 2050, the United States... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
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Rounding the Bend
greenhouse gas emissions. There’s also rampant waste and pollution involved in making the clothes we wear—two-thirds of which, after being jettisoned from our closets, get tossed into landfills or... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
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Curb Appeal
fine-tuned the agency’s messaging to attract people who were more interested in combating rats than reducing greenhouse gas emissions. “We talked to them about the fact that one-third of the material in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
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A Sustainable Solution for Fashion
Ferdinand Stockmann (MBA 2021) and James Theuerkauf (MBA 2021) Photo courtesy Syrup Tech Fashion is one of the most polluting industries in the world, says James Theuerkauf (MBA 2021), who worked in McKinsey’s retail sector before attending HBS. More than 8 percent of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
Michael Skelly (MBA 1991) CEO, Grid United Rise Above Corporate Interests BIO Climate change is upon us. If we are lucky, governments will pull together and create policies to reduce emissions and bend the curve of ever-increasing View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
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Green Talk at HBS
Before an overflow audience in September, Scott Nyquist (MBA ’84) and Thomas Seitz of McKinsey gave a talk on the “The Future of Energy: How Geopolitics, Environmental, and Supply Risks Are Shaping the Industry.” Drawing on the consulting firm’s research on View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
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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
- 01 Mar 2010
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A Wonderful Whirl
Mounted atop the Soldiers Field Park Garage, two wind turbines — 40-foot towers with 11.5-foot blades — represent Harvard’s biggest wind-energy project to date. Weighing more than 1,000 pounds each, the turbines are expected to supply 5 to 10 percent of the seven-story... View Details
- 19 Jun 2014
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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
- 01 Mar 2017
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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... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 02 Feb 2023
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Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
investments signal a real urgency. Jim Matheson: I think in the last 10 years, we've seen now not only the measurable rise of greenhouse gas emissions, we've seen the good work of the IPCC, the International... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
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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 net-zero greenhouse View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
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What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
shifting carbon footprint when they have a big life event? Jen Flint: One of the side effects of this crisis has been that we all abruptly stopped getting in our cars and boarding airplanes, we stopped all kinds of activities that also had the effect of reducing our... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
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Up on the Green Roof
commitment to doing its part to help the University meet its ambitious goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent from 2006 levels by 2016, explains Doug Scatterday, director of facilities. The... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
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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
- 01 Sep 2006
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Innovative Loan Fund Yields Big Returns
HBS has achieved approximately $300,000 in annual operational savings and earned $330,000 in rebates and grants from utilities and from the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative. The projects have also offset HBS’s greenhouse View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
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Batteries Included
economy.” Globally, shipping transports more than 10 billion metric tons of cargo each year. According to Yale Climate Connections, almost all of these ships run on fossil fuels and emit carbon pollution. Maritime shipping causes about 3 percent of global View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
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HBS Wins Green Business Award
64 cubic yards of growing medium spread over 5,000 square feet and planted with 9,000 perennials, photovoltaic panels, a cogeneration unit, and a full lighting retrofit. Since 2003, HBS has enacted more than 100 energy conservation measures. These measures, coupled... View Details