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Thought Experiment to Explore Potential Savings from Pooled Charging Infrastructure Investment
(2024-02-29)
A thought experiment is designed to explore potential savings associated with economies of scale when pooling truck charging infrastructure investments along the U.S. interstate network. It leverages truck stop location ...
MCSC Corporate Climate Finance Primer
(2024-05-14)
This corporate climate finance primer reviews MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium (MCSC) climate finance work and provides context for current MCSC research. The primer provides context for a range of corporate climate ...
Carbon Credits and Credibility: A Collaborative Endeavor
(2023-09-04)
Voluntary carbon markets (VCM) hold the promise of offsetting hard-to-decarbonize emissions for corporate climate and net zero strategies (Gentile 2022). However, concerns about greenwashing and the quality of voluntary ...
Establishing CO2 as an Asset Class in Voluntary Carbon Markets
(2023-07-26)
In Fall 2022, the MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium (MCSC) hosted a study group focused
on carbon markets, in the form of a panel discussion. Experts answered questions and engaged with
audience members on how ...
Alternative Fuels and Powertrains to Decarbonize Heavy Duty Trucking
(2023-09-15)
Amid mounting urgency to rapidly decarbonize the global economy in the coming decades, the
trucking industry sits on the cusp of a dramatic transition to low-carbon alternative fuels and
powertrains. Technological trends ...
Unlocking the Supply of E-waste for Materials Recovery: Regulatory Complexity in Transboundary Movement
(2023-10-24)
Globally less than a fifth of e-waste generated was collected and recycled in 2019, with the remaining landfilled, reused or recycled informally, largely in developing regions. A key challenge to unlocking the supply of ...
Nature-Based Climate Solutions: Current Uncertainties and Data Gaps in the Assessment of Soil Carbon Sequestration Potentials
(2024-04-16)
Nature-based solutions (NBS) to climate change, which harness natural ecosystems to achieve diverse environmental objectives, are becoming increasingly central to climate action plans due in large part to their multifaceted ...