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McKinsey’s Expanding Free Lunch Program
By David L. Levy The Financial Times reported some intriguing new McKinsey data this week on carbon mitigation costs across sectors and countries. The data indicate that there are substantial...
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Climate Change and Clean Tech in Israel
Israel is a small country of 7.5 million people with an oversized political and media footprint. It also has a growing carbon footprint problem on its current development path, as noted in the...
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Beyond Brokenhagen
Business and Climate Change in the Post-Copenhagen Era By David L. Levy (This is an updated version of an earlier posting) President Obama’s decision to speak at the COP-15 climate summit in Copenhagen...
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SEC Guidance a Boost for Carbon Disclosure
This post is by my colleague Lucia Silva Gao, Assistant Professor of Finance, College of Management, University of Massachusetts, Boston. Her research focuses on the relationship between environmental...
View ArticleBP’s Exit from USCAP: An Alarm Signal?
Four months is a long time in climate politics. Back in October 2009, the momentum toward a global carbon regime seemed ineluctable. President Obama held a super-majority in the US Senate, China...
View ArticleIt’s The Real Thing: The Power of Koch
We are at a critical juncture, as a backlash appears to be derailing action on climate change. If progressive groups want to address this threat, we need to understand the interests, strategies, and...
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The Promise of Carbon Capitalism?
Review of Climate Capitalism: Global Warming and the Transformation of the Global Economy by Drs. Peter Newell and Matthew Paterson, Cambridge University Press (2010). Can capitalism effectively...
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Corporate Governance for Sustainability
The Boston University Pardee Center recently released this report on Governance for a Green Economy: Beyond Rio+20: Governance for a Green Economy. The report was released at a recent UN meeting...
View ArticleMobilizing the Private Sector on Climate Change
“The lesson for public policy here is the importance of structuring incentives and managing expectations to shape business models and channel corporate resources in a positive rather than...
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Overcoming Hurdles to Clean Energy Commercialization
In the absence of a global framework for regulating emissions, the future of the planet largely rests on choices by private firms and investors regarding which technologies to pursue and commercialize....
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