Climate Rising

By Harvard Business School Business & Environment Initiative

Business

What's Climate Rising about?

Climate Rising is about the impact of climate change on business. It brings business and policy leaders and Harvard Business School faculty together to share insights about what businesses are doing, can do, and should do to confront climate change. It explores the many challenges and opportunities that climate change raises for managers, such as decisions about where they choose to locate, the technologies they develop and use, their strategies with respect to products, marketing, customer engagement, and policy—in other words, the full spectrum of business concerns.

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Financial Regulation and Cl...

07.07.2020

Explore different approaches to modeling and managing climate risk from the vantage points of industry leaders Robert Litterman, a seasoned risk management expert; Nushin Kormi, a specialist in sustainable finance; and Kevin Stiroh, a financial regulator. The discussion, moderated by ...

Climate Rising episodes:

07.07.2020 Financial Regulation and Climate Risk Management Explore different approaches to modeling and managing climate risk from the vantage points of industry leaders Robert Litterman, a seasoned risk management expert; Nushin Kormi, a specialist in sustainable finance; and Kevin Stiroh, a financial regulator. The discussion, moderated by ...
07.07.2020 Uncovering and Pricing Climate Risk How do managers within the different sectors of financial services identify and value climate risk? Professor George Serafeim talks with an asset manager, an insurer, a hedge fund manager, and an investment banker about their approaches to identifying and valuing ...
07.07.2020 Incorporating Climate Risk in Pension Fund Investment Decisions Hiro Mizuno, former head of the Japanese Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF), and Professor Vikram Gandhi discuss the steps GPIF has taken to incorporate climate risk in its investment process. Mizuno highlights the need to address the entire investment universe ...
07.07.2020 Leading State Street Corporation in the Era of Climate Change State Street Chairman & CEO Ron O’Hanley describes leading one of the world’s largest financial institutions in the era of climate change. In a discussion moderated by Professor George Serafeim, he describes the roles of asset managers, shareholders, and asset ...
12.20.2019 Climate Change Challenges Facing the Real Estate Industry The real estate industry faces climate change challenges like difficult financing in coastal cities, more stringent regulations on where and how to build, and the need to retrofit existing properties to reduce emissions. Bryan Koop of Boston Properties, one of ...
12.16.2019 Working with Companies and Investors to Address Climate Change How will a warming climate affect a company’s bottom line? How can groups like Ceres help persuade shareholders, CEOs, and their boards to use their influence to address climate change? Mindy Lubber of Ceres and Professor Rebecca Henderson at Harvard ...
12.06.2019 Developing the Wind Industry Wind power has more than tripled in the United States over the past decade. It's now the largest source of renewable energy in the country, accounting for more than 6% of the nation's electricity. The wind industry faces potential hurdles, ...
12.02.2019 Increasing Solar Power Is increasing solar power the answer? Abby Hopper, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association, and Professor Joe Lassiter discuss how to deliver reliable, clean, low cost power for people everywhere.
11.25.2019 Business and the Politics of Climate Change What influence does business have on the politics of climate change? In today’s episode, we'll look at how climate change affects different businesses, and how proposed regulations like a carbon tax could help or harm business. Weighing in with their ...
11.14.2019 Making the Food of the Future Agriculture contributes a quarter of the world's greenhouse gas, and 60% comes from manure and methane emissions from animals like cattle. How is the beef industry changing to address this challenge? Could plant-based or clean meat truly change our diets ...
11.07.2019 Growing Our Food: Making Agriculture More Sustainable The massive agriculture industry feeds billions of people but also contributes heavily to climate change. How do we employ more sustainable agricultural practices and maintain our ability to feed 7.7 billion people, plus 2 billion more by 2050? Indigo Agriculture’s ...
11.04.2019 Getting Around: Shaping the Future of Transportation What should the future of transportation look like? The solutions will likely require us to change how often we drive cars, the types of fuels we use, an investment in public transportation, congestion charges, and more car-pooling and ride-hailing services. ...
10.28.2019 Creating Resilience: How Businesses Can Cope with the Costs of a Warming Planet Both cities and businesses need to prepare for climate change. That means changing how they do business today and in the future, but there’s potential for big financial benefits with change, too. Rachel Cleetus from the Union of Concerned Scientists ...
10.07.2019 Trailer: Introducing Climate Rising Climate Rising is about the impact of climate change on business. It brings together business and policy leaders like Rachel Cleetus from the Union of Concerned Scientists, Adam Gromis of Uber, Bruce Friedrich from the Good Food Institute, Abigail Ross ...

Climate Rising

What's Climate Rising about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Climate Rising episodes:

Financial Regulation and Climate Risk Management

Uncovering and Pricing Climate Risk

Incorporating Climate Risk in Pension Fund Investment Decisions

Leading State Street Corporation in the Era of Climate Change

Climate Change Challenges Facing the Real Estate Industry

Working with Companies and Investors to Address Climate Change

Developing the Wind Industry

Increasing Solar Power

Business and the Politics of Climate Change

Making the Food of the Future

Growing Our Food: Making Agriculture More Sustainable

Getting Around: Shaping the Future of Transportation

Creating Resilience: How Businesses Can Cope with the Costs of a Warming Planet

Trailer: Introducing Climate Rising