Climate and Consumer Behavior

Algorithms, Climate and Consumer Behavior, AI and Transformative Tech, Digital IQ, Media and Technology
Date
Polar bear on melting ice
Algorithms, Climate and Consumer Behavior, AI and Transformative Tech, Digital IQ, Media and Technology

How Google Images Can Make You Really Care About Climate Change

Your Google search for “climate change” may show emotional images — or calm, scientific visuals — depending on where you are. A new CBS study reveals how search algorithms shape climate perceptions worldwide.
Climate and Consumer Behavior, Climate and Finance, Climate and Technology, Energy, Energy Solutions, Energy Transition
Date
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
Date
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
Date
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, Climate and Finance, Climate and Policy, Climate and Solutions, Energy, Energy Transition
Date
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
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
Type
Climate
Date
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.
Subscribe to Climate and Consumer Behavior