Tech-based Carbon Removal: Sustaera’s Direct Air Capture
- 30 NOV 2022
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- Climate Rising
Shantanu Agarwal, Co-Founder and Director of Sustaera, a startup company developing
a Direct Air Capture technology to remove carbon from the atmosphere, shares his perspective
on the landscape in the race to develop scalable and affordable carbon removal technologies–from
engineering to financing to deployment–and how Sustaera’s specific technology fits
in. He also discusses how his entrepreneurial background led him to finding solutions
for climate change and he offers advice for those interested in careers in business
and climate change. For transcripts and other resources, visit climaterising.org.
Guest: Shantanu Agarwal, Co-Founder and Director, Sustaera.
Shantanu Agarwal, Co-Founder and Director of Sustaera, a startup company developing
a Direct Air Capture technology to remove carbon from the atmosphere, shares his perspective
on the landscape in the race to develop scalable and affordable carbon removal technologies–from
engineering to financing to deployment–and how Sustaera’s specific technology fits
in. He also discusses how his entrepreneurial background led him to finding solutions
for climate change and he offers advice for those interested in careers in business
and climate change. For transcripts and other resources, visit climaterising.org.
Guest: Shantanu Agarwal, Co-Founder and Director, Sustaera.
COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now?
Re: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Rebecca Henderson, John Macomber & Peter Tufano
- 09 Nov 2022
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- HBS Working Knowledge
Your Company Needs a Space Strategy. Now.
- NOVEMBER–DECEMBER 2022
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- Harvard Business Review
Space is becoming a potential source of value for businesses across a range of sectors, including agriculture, pharmaceuticals, consumer goods, and tourism. To understand what the opportunities are for your company, the authors advise you to consider the four ways in which using space could create value: data, capabilities, resources, and markets. For most companies thinking about their space strategy over the next five to 10 years, data will be the dominant focus. For instance, many companies are turning to remote-sensing satellites for data that will inform business decisions. Whether it’s tracking the number of cars parked in retail locations, detecting costly and environmentally damaging methane leaks from natural-gas wells, or assessing soil type and moisture content to maximize crop yields, creative uses for data gathered from space abound. Companies looking further ahead will want to explore the value to be gained from conducting activities in space, utilizing space assets, and meeting demand from the new space age. Businesses engaging with commercial space should be willing to experiment and should look for partners.
COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now?
- 09 NOV 2022
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- In Practice
The US government plans to spend $370 billion to cut greenhouse gases and expand renewable energy—its biggest investment yet. In the wake of COP27, we asked Harvard Business School faculty members how executives could seize this moment.
Climate Change Vulnerability and Currency Returns
- 2022
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- Financial Analysts Journal
Using measures of physical risk from climate change, we develop a methodology to allocate currency pairs according to a country’s vulnerability and construct portfolios with decreasing vulnerability to physical risk. We show that non-G10 currencies are more vulnerable to physical risk, have become less vulnerable over time, and that the vulnerability measure is correlated with higher losses from natural disasters. Portfolios exposed to currencies with decreasing vulnerability have exhibited positive abnormal returns, with the abnormal return coming from currencies that have relatively high levels of vulnerability. These results exist in non-G10 currencies, while no relation is found within G10 currencies.
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