Going Carbon Negative at Microsoft
- 02 AUG 2023
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- Climate Rising
Formerly Microsoft’s Chief Environmental Officer, and now Chief Sustainability Officer
& Senior Managing Director at Haveli Investments, Lucas Joppa discusses the strategies
and tools Microsoft developed to meet its ambitious carbon negative goals, including
setting an internal price on carbon, restructuring their corporate governance, and
funding innovative climate technology solutions. He also tells us why he thinks climate
finance is entering its most consequential decade. ---- Climate Rising Host: Professor
Mike Toffel, Faculty Chair, Business & Environment Initiative Guest: Lucas Joppa,
Chief Sustainability Officer & Senior Managing Director, Haveli Investments For transcripts
and other resources, visit climaterising.org.
Formerly Microsoft’s Chief Environmental Officer, and now Chief Sustainability Officer
& Senior Managing Director at Haveli Investments, Lucas Joppa discusses the strategies
and tools Microsoft developed to meet its ambitious carbon negative goals, including
setting an internal price on carbon, restructuring their corporate governance, and
funding innovative climate technology solutions. He also tells us why he thinks climate
finance is entering its most consequential decade. ---- Climate Rising Host: Professor
Mike Toffel, Faculty Chair, Business & Environment Initiative Guest: Lucas Joppa,
Chief Sustainability Officer & Senior Managing Director, Haveli Investments For transcripts
and other resources, visit climaterising.org.
Q+A with New Social Enterprise Initiative Faculty Chair Shawn Cole and New Director Amelia Angella
Re: Shawn Cole & Amelia Angella
- 02 Aug 2023
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- Harvard Business School
Guinea Pigbots: Doing Research with Human Subjects is Costly and Cumbersome. Can AI Chatbots Replace Them?
Re: Ayelet Israeli
- 13 Jul 2023
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- Science
How Distorted Insurance Pricing Obscures Customers’ Climate Risks
By: Ishita Sen
- 05 Jul 2023
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- Financial Times
Agricultural Innovation and Sustainability in the Netherlands
- JULY 2023
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- Teaching Material
This note describes some of the most significant agricultural innovations in the Netherlands, their drivers, environmental performance implications, some challenges facing the sector, and the potential replicability of these innovations to other contexts.
Will Global Demand for Oil Peak This Decade?
- 18 JUL 2023
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- Research & Ideas
The International Energy Agency expects the world's oil demand to start to ebb in the coming years. However, Joseph Lassiter and Lauren Cohen say the outlook will likely be more complex, especially as poor and fast-growing regions seek energy sources for their economies.
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