XPRIZE: Accelerating Climate Change Solutions

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... by Climate Rising

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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... by Climate Rising

41 min listen

Rebecca Henderson: Can Capitalism Address Climate Change: As the impacts of climate change mount, questions have arisen about whether the capitalist economic system we have in place is able to adequately address them. But what if, rather than upending the system, we recognized the power capitalism offers... by Climate Rising

42 min listen

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... by Climate Rising

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Ensuring a Resilient Future: Shalini Vajjhala and Jamie Rhodes, re:focus partners: Shalini Vajjhala and Jamie Rhodes of re:focus partners share new thinking on how they are helping communities design and finance climate resilience projects needed to protect municipalities from the physical impacts of climate change, including more... by Climate Rising

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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, however,... by Climate Rising

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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... by Climate Rising

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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... by Climate Rising

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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... by Climate Rising

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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... by Climate Rising

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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... by Climate Rising

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Critical Climate Infrastructure: Scott Jacobs, Generate Capital: Generate Capital invests in and operates technologies that provide distributed clean energy and energy efficiency, electric vehicles and charging depots, and waste transformation—technologies important to efforts to mitigate climate change. CEO... by Climate Rising

39 min listen

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,... by Climate Rising

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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... by Climate Rising

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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... by Climate Rising

27 min listen

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. by Climate Rising

38 min listen

Innovation in Materials for a Better Climate: Matt Scullin, MycoWorks: Matthew Scullin, CEO of MycoWorks, is attempting to reduce the carbon impact of the fashion industry by producing leather made from mushrooms as an alternative to leather made from cow hides or plastic. His product is called Reishi, and unlike... by Climate Rising

36 min listen

Investment Management for the Carbon Potential of Forests: David Brand, New Forests: 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 climate vision. Right now the forestry business, together with agriculture and land use, is responsible... by Climate Rising

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Electrifying Mass Mobility: Uday Khemka, SUN Mobility: Decarbonizing our economy will require shifting transportation from fossil fuels to electricity generated by carbon-free sources. Uday Khemka (HBS MBA 1995), co-Founder and Vice Chairman of SUN Mobility, aims to accelerate mass adoption of electric... by Climate Rising

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Making a Marketplace for Captured Carbon: Steve Oldham, Carbon Engineering: Many of the innovators we’ve spoken with this season are launching technologies or business models that produce less carbon than status quo approaches – leather made from mushrooms instead of cows, for example, and vehicles that run on electricity... by Climate Rising

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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... by Climate Rising

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Investing in No-Sacrifice Models for Climate: Nancy Pfund, DBL Partners: 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 seeks to achieve “Double Bottom Line” results for its investors: top tier financial returns as well... by Climate Rising

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The Aspen Institute’s Shipping Decarbonization Initiative: Ingrid Irigoyen, Director of the Aspen Institute Shipping Decarbonization Initiative, discussesthe importance of decarbonizing global maritime shipping, the opportunities and challenges, andhow the Aspen Institute is working with Amazon, IKEA,... by Climate Rising

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Climate Change Lessons from the U.S. Navy: Forest Reinhardt & Michael Toffel: 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 against rising sea levels. Second, it has to plan to be called on more often to address both military... by Climate Rising

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How BlocPower is Decarbonizing Buildings: Donnel Baird, founder and CEO of BlocPower, a climate tech startup, describes why decarbonizing the buildings sector is both a challenge and an opportunity, why he chose this corner of the climate tech space, and how BlocPower is working with the city... by Climate Rising

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Bringing Scale Capital to Climate Game-Changers: David Crane, Climate Real Impact Solutions SPAC: 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, reflects on what’s changed since then, and describes his newest venture raising funds for a climate-tech... by Climate Rising

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How RMI Collaborates with Companies to Accelerate the Energy Transition by Climate Rising

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Supply Chain Decarbonization: Walmart’s Project Gigaton: Kathleen McLaughlin, Chief Sustainability Office at Walmart, Inc. and President of the WalmartFoundation, discusses how Walmart plans to achieve its goal to avoid a gigaton–a billion metrictons–of greenhouse gas emissions in its global supply... by Climate Rising

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XPRIZE: Accelerating Climate Change Solutions: Marcius Extavour, XPRIZE’s VP-Climate and Energy, discusses how his organization designs competitions to spur innovations for carbon removal and carbon utilization (converting greenhouse gasses into products). In discussing the Carbon XPRIZE and... by Climate Rising

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