Climate Rising
Episodes
The HP Way to Net Zero
26 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ellen Jackowski, HP’s Chief Impact Officer, describes the company’s climate targets and how HP is shifting its business model to respond to climat...
Making Infrastructure Climate Ready: Alice Hill, Council on Foreign Relations
19 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In early 2021, a severe winter storm knocked out Texas’ power grid for days, leaving millions shivering in the dark and killing hundreds of resident...
Climate Change Lessons from the U.S. Navy: Forest Reinhardt & Michael Toffel
12 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Climate change poses two very different challenges to the U.S. Navy. First, the Navy has to buttress its billions of dollars of shoreline assets again...
Rebecca Henderson: Can Capitalism Address Climate Change
05 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As the impacts of climate change mount, questions have arisen about whether the capitalist economic system we have in place is able to adequately addr...
Making a Marketplace for Captured Carbon: Steve Oldham, Carbon Engineering
20 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Many of the innovators we’ve spoken with this season are launching technologies or business models that produce less carbon than status quo approach...
Investment Management for the Carbon Potential of Forests: David Brand, New Forests
13 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
David Brand is founder and CEO of New Forests, a business that manages forests for long-term returns for institutional investors. He has an unusual cl...
Electrifying Mass Mobility: Uday Khemka, SUN Mobility
06 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Decarbonizing our economy will require shifting transportation from fossil fuels to electricity generated by carbon-free sources. Uday Khemka (HBS MBA...
Critical Climate Infrastructure: Scott Jacobs, Generate Capital
29 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Generate Capital invests in and operates technologies that provide distributed clean energy and energy efficiency, electric vehicles and charging depo...
Ensuring a Resilient Future: Shalini Vajjhala and Jamie Rhodes, re:focus partners
22 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Shalini Vajjhala and Jamie Rhodes of re:focus partners share new thinking on how they are helping communities design and finance climate resilience pr...
Innovation in Materials for a Better Climate: Matt Scullin, MycoWorks
15 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Matthew Scullin, CEO of MycoWorks, is attempting to reduce the carbon impact of the fashion industry by producing leather made from mushrooms as an al...
Bringing Scale Capital to Climate Game-Changers: David Crane, Climate Real Impact Solutions SPAC
08 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
David Crane tried to lead the NRG utility to transition from fossil fuel energy sources, but was ousted in 2015. He shares his lessons learned, reflec...
Investing in No-Sacrifice Models for Climate: Nancy Pfund, DBL Partners
01 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nancy Pfund is founder and managing partner of DBL Partners, one of the first and largest impact investing venture capital firms in the world. DBL see...
Financial Regulation and Climate Risk Management
07 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Explore different approaches to modeling and managing climate risk from the vantage points of industry leaders Robert Litterman, a seasoned risk mana...
Uncovering and Pricing Climate Risk
07 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How do managers within the different sectors of financial services identify and value climate risk? Professor George Serafeim talks with an asset mana...
Incorporating Climate Risk in Pension Fund Investment Decisions
07 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hiro Mizuno, former head of the Japanese Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF), and Professor Vikram Gandhi discuss the steps GPIF has taken to in...
Leading State Street Corporation in the Era of Climate Change
07 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 di...
Climate Change Challenges Facing the Real Estate Industry
20 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The real estate industry faces climate change challenges like difficult financing in coastal cities, more stringent regulations on where and how to bu...
Working with Companies and Investors to Address Climate Change
16 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Developing the Wind Industry
06 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Increasing Solar Power
02 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Is increasing solar power the answer? Abby Hopper, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association, and Professor Joe Lassiter discuss ...
Business and the Politics of Climate Change
25 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What influence does business have on the politics of climate change? In today’s episode, we'll look at how climate change affects different business...
Making the Food of the Future
14 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Growing Our Food: Making Agriculture More Sustainable
07 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The massive agriculture industry feeds billions of people but also contributes heavily to climate change. How do we employ more sustainable agricultur...
Getting Around: Shaping the Future of Transportation
04 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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,...
Creating Resilience: How Businesses Can Cope with the Costs of a Warming Planet
28 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 potenti...
Trailer: Introducing Climate Rising
07 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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...