1:00 PM-2:00 PM Panel 1: Voluntary corporate climate targets: New data and a new tool
Do voluntary corporate climate targets make a difference? How have these targets evolved over time? In this session, Harvard researchers will launch a free and publicly available data set and interactive tool built to help researchers and practitioners probe voluntary climate action.
This session will provide an exclusive look at new insights from the study, covering Russell 3000 companies’ commitments and emissions data over 24 years.
Participants will walk-through the Salata Institute’s new database and interactive climate targets tool, learning ways to use this new resource for research, planning, reporting, and more.
2:30 PM-3:30 PM Panel 2: Do offsets have a future?
Carbon offset markets fail for many reasons – from adverse selection to moral hazard to over-crediting. Can these markets be repaired? Do offsets have any role to play in future decarbonization?
Hear from leaders grappling with these questions at a key inflection point for offsets, as the EU, CORSIA, and Singapore open compliance regimes to credits.
4:00 PM-5:30 PM Panel 3: Extreme heat: is it too hot to thrive?
As El Niño intensifies in the Pacific, communities around the world, from Dhaka to London, are already reeling from extreme heat.
In this session, we share findings from innovative research measuring the impact of extreme heat on workers in the informal labor economy in India, and platform (gig) workers in New York City, to raise tough questions: what strategies are working or need to be designed to address these new findings? How does evolving research challenge our notions of survivability? What legal and financial tools exist to address productivity losses and to protect workers’ health?
Join researchers from Harvard and CUNY in conversation with city officials, workers and corporations seeking to address these challenges globally.
5:30 PM-7:30 PM Networking Reception
Stay and connect with Harvard alumni, researchers, practitioners, and leaders at an evening reception co-sponsored by Harvard Alumni for Climate and the Environment, C-CHANGE, The Environmental and Energy Law Program (EELP) at Harvard Law School and The Business and Environment Initiative at Harvard Business School.
The reception will include brief remarks by Peter Tufano, Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and Senior Advisor to the Salata Institute, along with HACE representatives, on ways to connect with a growing community of alumni working to advance climate solutions.
If you would like to request accommodations or have questions about physical access, please contact [email protected] in advance of the event.
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