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Skeptics are more likely to approve of sustainable infrastructure when shown AI-enhanced images of how green cityscapes might look, research finds.
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IKEA CEO: 3 ways to gain competitive advantage with sustainability
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IKEA chief Jesper Brodin says sustainability isn’t just good for the environment — it’s a smart business practice, too.
4 ways the US election could impact 2025 climate policy
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A Republican sweep could reverse the Biden administration’s signature 2022 climate law. MIT Sloan economist Catherine Wolfram analyzes four potential outcomes.
Pursuing Sustainability & Profitability: Brewing Up Disruption at Keurig
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Neha Thatte Mallik, MBA ' 16, Sustainability Certificate, Director of Product Management at Keurig Dr Pepper, Inc., is on a mission to disrupt the single-serve coffee industry.
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The Hill
Professor Catherine Wolfram and co-author write: "The entrenched view that the United States will never support a carbon price is misguided. 2025 will be a big year for Congress to tackle longstanding fiscal issues and further climate policy efforts. Before this can happen, politicians need to hear timely arguments backed by up-to-date evidence."
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Financial Times
In new research, professor Roberto Rigobon, research scientist Florian Berg, and co-author used data from analytics firm Clarity AI to assess the carbon emissions of companies that did and didn't have SBTi-approved targets in place. The results were striking. Companies that set SBTi targets, but didn't obtain assurance on their climate reports, performed no better on emissions reduction than non-SBTi signatories.
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Fast Company
"The impact on jobs of the energy transition is not just going to be where oil and natural gas are drilled, it's going to be all the way up and down the value chain of things we make in the U.S.," said professor Christopher Knittel, coauthor of a research paper on the analysis published today.
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The Hill
Professor Christopher Knittel and co-author write: "Our research paper, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, provides new economy-wide data on where employment in the United States is most vulnerable to the economic pressures of the energy transition. We find that the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act fails to effectively support many parts of the country where employment is at risk."
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CNN
"The target here is to produce electricity cheaper than coal and gas plants," senior lecturer John Parsons said. These fossil fuel plants are "terribly simple and cheap to run — they're just dirty," he added.
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The Boston Globe
John Sterman, a professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management with a focus in sustainability, achieved the holy grail of net zero eight years ago. His 1920s Lexington home was due for an update, but instead of just "upgrading and renovating," Sterman decided the "incremental cost of going deeper and doing a retrofit" was the right move.