Climate and Consumer Behavior

Algorithms
Climate and Consumer Behavior
Digital Future
Digital IQ
Media and Technology
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Polar bear on melting ice
Algorithms
Climate and Consumer Behavior
Digital Future
Digital IQ
Media and Technology

How Google Images Can Make You Really Care About Climate Change

Google Images search results for "climate change" vary dramatically by country, reflecting local beliefs and even shaping public opinion. A new study from Columbia Business School reveals how these image algorithms can influence climate awareness, policy support, and environmental action.
Climate and Consumer Behavior
Climate and Finance
Climate and Technology
Energy
Energy Solutions
Energy Transition
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Technician working on solar panels
Climate and Consumer Behavior
Climate and Finance
Climate and Technology
Energy
Energy Solutions
Energy Transition

To Help Scale Climate Finance, MDBs Must Seek Replicable Leverage

Combining public priorities with private investments is the key to climate action – but speed is of the essence.

Climate and Consumer Behavior
Climate and Policy
Climate and Solutions
Real Estate
Social Impact
Date
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
Date
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
Entrepreneurial Leadership & Strategy
Innovation
Leadership and Strategy
Date
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.

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