Climate Rising podcast

Climate Rising

Climate Rising is about the impact of climate change on business. It brings business and policy leaders and Harvard Business School faculty together to share insights about what businesses are doing, can do, and should do to confront climate change. It explores the many challenges and opportunities that climate change raises for managers, such as decisions about where they choose to locate, the technologies they develop and use, their strategies with respect to products, marketing, customer engagement, and policy—in other words, the full spectrum of business concerns.

Climate Rising is about the impact of climate change on business. It brings business and policy leaders and Harvard Business School faculty together to share insights about what businesses are doing, can do, and should do to confront climate change. It explores the many challenges and opportunities that climate change raises for managers, such as decisions about where they choose to locate, the technologies they develop and use, their strategies with respect to products, marketing, customer engagement, and policy—in other words, the full spectrum of business concerns.

 

#122

Governing Climate Action: Massachusetts’ Strategy for Decarbonization and Resilience

Jonathan Schrag, Deputy Climate Chief for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, joins Climate... more

29 Oct 2025

44 MINS

44:53

29 Oct 2025


#121

How Crusoe is Reducing the Carbon Intensity of AI Data Centers

Hui Wen Chan, Senior Director of Sustainability at Crusoe, describes how the rapid rise of... more

15 Oct 2025

30 MINS

30:50

15 Oct 2025


#120

Scaling Carbon Capture for Hard-to-abate sectors: Danielle Rapson of Mantel

Danielle Rapson, HBS alum and Co-founder and COO of Mantel, joins Climate Rising to explai... more

01 Oct 2025

40 MINS

40:07

01 Oct 2025


#119

Building Climate-Resilient Farming with Robotics: Eric Adamson of Oishii and Tortuga

Eric Adamson, Robotics Executive at Oishii and co-founder of Tortuga AgTech, joins Climate... more

17 Sep 2025

43 MINS

43:13

17 Sep 2025


#118

Microsoft ’s Climate Strategy and Its Carbon Removal Deal with Chestnut Carbon

Microsoft’s Brian Marrs, Senior Director of Energy and Carbon Removal, and Chestnut Carbon... more

10 Sep 2025

44 MINS

44:34

10 Sep 2025


#117

Reducing Household Emissions with Dishwashing Innovation: A Conversation with P&G ’ s Ashley Fill

Ashley Fill, Global Director of Sustainability at P&G Home Care joins Climate Rising to di... more

27 Aug 2025

48 MINS

48:02

27 Aug 2025


#116

AI for Climate Resilient Food Systems with ClimateAi’s Himanshu Gupta

ClimateAi co-founder and CEO Himanshu Gupta explains how his company uses machine learning... more

13 Aug 2025

46 MINS

46:16

13 Aug 2025


#115

Designing for Resilience: with Alex Berkowitz of Coastal Protection Services

This episode is another in our series on Climate Resilience featuring Alex Berkowitz, Foun... more

30 Jul 2025

38 MINS

38:10

30 Jul 2025


#114

Investing in Climate Resilience and Poverty Alleviation: Acumen Founder & CEO Jacqueline Novogratz

In this Climate Rising episode in our series on climate resilience, Jacqueline Novogratz, ... more

16 Jul 2025

57 MINS

57:24

16 Jul 2025


#113

Forecasting Climate Risk with Geospatial AI: Sarah Russell of X , the Moonshot Factory at Alphabet

This episode, part of the Climate Rising series on climate resilience, features Sarah Russ... more

02 Jul 2025

35 MINS

35:09

02 Jul 2025


#112

Closing the Loop by Recycling Apparel: Reju CEO Patrik Frisk

Patrik Frisk, CEO of ReJu, joins Climate Rising to discuss his company’s mission to recycl... more

18 Jun 2025

43 MINS

43:43

18 Jun 2025


#111

Extending Apparel Lifespan: ThredUp CEO James Reinhart

James Reinhart, CEO of ThredUp, one of the largest online resale platforms for secondhand ... more

04 Jun 2025

38 MINS

38:02

04 Jun 2025


#110

Designing for Circularity at Scale: A Conversation with Karen Pflug of Ingka Group

In the latest episode of Climate Rising from Harvard Business School, Karen Pflug, Chief S... more

21 May 2025

46 MINS

46:27

21 May 2025


#109

Advancing the Circular Economy: A Conversation with Lauren Rodriguez of Closed Loop Partners

Lauren Rodriguez, who leads partnerships at Circular Services, a Closed Loop Partners comp... more

07 May 2025

41 MINS

41:45

07 May 2025


#108

Scaling Reuse with Vytal: A Circular Economy Conversation with CEO Fabian Barthel

Fabian Barthel, Co-Founder of Vytal, a circular economy packaging-as-a-service startup, jo... more

23 Apr 2025

44 MINS

44:49

23 Apr 2025


#107

Carbon Credit Ratings and Market Integrity: A Conversation on the Calyx Global Case

In this bonus episode of Climate Rising, we share an episode from Harvard Business School’... more

09 Apr 2025

41 MINS

41:21

09 Apr 2025


#106

Investing in Carbon Markets: A Conversation with Luke Leslie of Key Carbon

Luke Leslie, Co-Founder and CEO of Key Carbon, joins Climate Rising as part of our series ... more

26 Mar 2025

41 MINS

41:26

26 Mar 2025


#105

Navigating Carbon Markets: A Conversation with Alexia Kelly of High Tide Foundation

Alexia Kelly, Managing Director of the Carbon Policy and Markets Initiative (CPMI) at theH... more

12 Mar 2025

56 MINS

56:17

12 Mar 2025


#104

Enhancing Integrity Standards in Carbon Markets: A Conversation with Amy Merrill of ICVCM

Amy Merrill, CEO of the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM) joins ho... more

26 Feb 2025

40 MINS

40:29

26 Feb 2025


#103

Strengthening Carbon Claims via the Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative (VCMI): A Conversa...

This episode, the third in our series on Voluntary Carbon Markets, features Mark Kenber, E... more

12 Feb 2025

52 MINS

52:30

12 Feb 2025


#102

The Potential and Challenges of the Voluntary Carbon Market

Our second episode on the voluntary carbon market is a bonus episode of a panel discussion... more

29 Jan 2025

54 MINS

54:59

29 Jan 2025


#101

Building Integrity in Carbon Markets: A Conversation with Jennifer Jenkins of Rubicon Carbon

Dr. Jennifer Jenkins, Chief Science Officer at Rubicon Carbon, joins our host Mike to talk... more

15 Jan 2025

45 MINS

45:18

15 Jan 2025