Making Infrastructure Climate Ready: Alice Hill, Council on Foreign Relations
In early 2021, a severe winter storm knocked out Texas’ power grid for days, leaving millions shivering in the dark and killing hundreds of residents. Other states have also been caught off guard by e...
19 Jan 202242min
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...
12 Jan 202224min
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 sy...
5 Jan 202241min
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, fo...
20 Mai 202142min
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, tog...
13 Mai 202130min
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 Mobili...
6 Mai 202135min
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 importan...
29 Apr 202138min
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 p...
22 Apr 202138min
