Climate

A CBS center dedicated to addressing issues at the intersection of business and society is expanding to address the global climate crisis.

At the Tamer Institute's 2024 Climate Business and Investment Conference, the automotive industry leader explained how the company is overcoming EV market challenges on the road to net zero.

Why would Stripe, a payment-processing software company, be involved in funding carbon dioxide removal solutions? Nan Ransohoff recently visited CBS to share why the company is building up its capacities to take on climate change.

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.

The climate reporting genie is out of the bottle although the cost of a less prescriptive SEC rule is reporting inconsistencies across jurisdictions and fully delegating materiality assessments to the firm.

During a recent workshop at Columbia Business School, experts addressed the challenge of soaring emissions, highlighting the urgent need for a comprehensive transformation across the industry.

And the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act is surprisingly well-designed to deal with the fallout.

“I think we need a green steel definition,” noted Marie Jaroni, senior vice president of decarbonization and ESG at Germany’s ThyssenKrupp. “Everyone is doing their own thing. It would help our clients and our customers to have one green steel definition, and I think that’s very crucial for all of us.”