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 tec...
9 Feb 202244min
The HP Way to Net Zero
Ellen Jackowski, HP’s Chief Impact Officer, describes the company’s climate targets and how HP is shifting its business model to respond to climate change. She explains how HP is both engaging their e...
26 Jan 202234min
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 Maj 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 Maj 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 Maj 202135min
