Imagine a company considering a few different ways of reducing its greenhouse gas emissions: increasing energy efficiency within the company boundaries, purchasing green power from the local utility, and replacing virgin raw materials with recycled materials. How should the company prioritize these solutions to maximize the immediate climate impact of…

With so many of us working from home and using services like Zoom to meet with co-workers and customers, an obvious question is whether this trend is good or bad for climate. …

Can what happened to our national pandemic response happen to our climate response in the next few critical years? — As the US West Coast struggled to contain unprecedented wildfires, Donald Trump maintained that science really doesn’t know the root cause of this devastation. Before we dismiss this as another off-the-cuff Trumpian comment, the pandemic has shown that a president’s beliefs — however illogical and unscientific — can translate into…

Donald Trump’s handpicked postmaster general has executed the president’s plan perfectly. He has made sure that we can’t depend on the Postal Service to get our votes in by November 3rd. Mail delivery has slowed down, overtime has been cut, mail sorting machines have been removed from various processing facilities…

Five actions that can turn your company into a climate leader — By Kumar Venkat and Susan Cholette Let’s say you are a business executive or a business owner. You have heard that 2030 is pretty much the drop-dead year for drastically reducing our greenhouse gas emissions if we want to hold the warming to 1.5°C and avoid the worst of climate…

If we are going to bend the emissions curve, emissions accounting must become as commonplace as financial accounting. — By Kumar Venkat and Susan Cholette Imagine a world where many businesses — large and small — quantify their greenhouse gas emissions annually and develop plans for cutting emissions. Imagine also that emissions accounting and planning are no more complicated or expensive than financial accounting and planning.

Working from home could be a starting point for tackling the climate crisis — Kumar Venkat and Susan Cholette As most of us stay hunkered down at home, we can already see a clearing of the air. There are reports of dramatically lower air pollution and smog around the world. Los Angeles saw a 29% drop in air pollution in March, and the nitrogen…

Susan Cholette and Kumar Venkat The pandemic has upended supply chains. No doubt many of you, like us, have had to adjust your purchasing habits. …

I was one of many consultants and analysts trying to help companies cut their carbon emissions a decade ago. In the end, we did not manage to put a dent in the annual greenhouse gas inventories of nations. The record high global emissions this year and the rising US emissions…