Climate and Consumer Behavior

Climate and Consumer Behavior, Climate and Policy, Climate and Solutions, Real Estate, Social Impact
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LA wildfires
Climate and Consumer Behavior, Climate and Policy, Climate and Solutions, Real Estate, Social Impact

Why Home Buyers Ignore the Climate Risk in Danger Zones

The recent wildfires in Los Angeles highlight how suppressed insurance premiums and government policies incentivize Americans to settle in areas with a high climate risk, exacerbating economic and environmental disasters.
Business and Society, Climate and Consumer Behavior, Data/Big Data, Tamer Institute for Social Enterprise and Climate Change
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Air travel
Business and Society, Climate and Consumer Behavior, Data/Big Data, Tamer Institute for Social Enterprise and Climate Change

The Carbon Knowledge Gap: Why Most Consumers Struggle to Make Effective Eco Choices

A new Columbia Business School study reveals a troubling knowledge gap: most consumers can’t accurately estimate carbon emissions from industries, companies, or behaviors, undermining their ability to make impactful eco-friendly decisions.
Carbon, Climate and Consumer Behavior, Climate and Solutions
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People using eco bag, sorting plastic waste for recycling. Eco friendly shopping. Zero waste. Using reusable bags to save earth environment and less resource pollution. Sustainable choice clean nature
Carbon, Climate and Consumer Behavior, Climate and Solutions
Press Release

Carbon Competence: People Overwhelming Make Incorrect Sustainability Choices

New research finds most consumers want to make sustainable choices to help mitigate the climate crisis, but lack the knowledge to reliably do so
Climate and Consumer Behavior, World Business
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A Chinese flag and an electric car
Climate and Consumer Behavior, World Business

The Right Response to China's Electric-Vehicle Subsidies

While the availability of cheap electric vehicles is good news for the planet and for consumers everywhere, it is bad news for shareholders and employees of Western car companies, and both the United States and Europe are considering imposing import tariffs on Chinese EVs. But tariffs are the wrong approach.
Climate and Consumer Behavior, Climate and Finance, Climate and Policy, Climate and Solutions, Energy, Energy Transition
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Smoke from a factory chimney
Climate and Consumer Behavior, Climate and Finance, Climate and Policy, Climate and Solutions, Energy, Energy Transition

The Costs of 'Costless' Climate Mitigation

The IPCC and leading economic models have different ideas about emissions reduction costs.
Climate and Consumer Behavior, Entrepreneurial Leadership & Strategy, Innovation, Leadership and Strategy
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A woman at a job interview
Climate and Consumer Behavior, Entrepreneurial Leadership & Strategy, Innovation, Leadership and Strategy

How to 'Read Minds' to Get Ahead in Business

CBS Professor Daniel Ames describes how cultivating 'mind reading' — or social inference — skills can help people succeed in business and beyond.
Climate and Consumer Behavior, Climate and Finance, Climate and Policy, Climate and Solutions, Climate and Technology, Social Enterprise
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Climate
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Climate and Consumer Behavior, Climate and Finance, Climate and Policy, Climate and Solutions, Climate and Technology, Social Enterprise

Climate and Clean Energy Policy in the Post-inflation Reduction Act World

At the inaugural event for the new Climate Change and New American Economy Series, Brian Deese, MIT innovation fellow and former director of the National Economic Action Council at the White House, discusses climate action and economic opportunity.
Climate and Consumer Behavior, Climate and Policy, Climate and Solutions, Data and Business Analytics, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Energy Solutions, Industry, Social Enterprise, Technology
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Climate
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Climate and Consumer Behavior, Climate and Policy, Climate and Solutions, Data and Business Analytics, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Energy Solutions, Industry, Social Enterprise, Technology

The Future of ESG: Overhauling Our Approach to Saving the World

Our approach so far to ESG is 'fundamentally flawed,' argues veteran investor Terrence Keeley in a conversation with CBS Professor Shivaram Rajgopal.
Carbon Capture, Climate and Consumer Behavior, Climate and Finance, Climate and Solutions, Climate and Technology, Corporate Finance, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Energy, Energy Transition, Industry, Social Enterprise
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Ron Gonen
Carbon Capture, Climate and Consumer Behavior, Climate and Finance, Climate and Solutions, Climate and Technology, Corporate Finance, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Energy, Energy Transition, Industry, Social Enterprise

Turning Trash into Treasure: A CBS Alum Champions the Circular Economy, Sustainable Entrepreneurship

With investments in dozens of companies worldwide, Ron Gonen '04 closes the loop on sustainable economic practices.
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