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Jason Jay
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En-ROADS Climate simulation tool

The En-ROADS Climate Solutions Simulator is a fast, powerful climate solutions scenario tool for understanding how we can achieve our climate goals through changes in energy, land use, consumption, agriculture, and other policies. The simulator focuses on how changes in global GDP, energy efficiency, technological innovation, and carbon price influence carbon emissions, global temperature, and other factors. It is designed to provide a synthesis of the best available science on climate solutions and put it at the fingertips of groups in policy workshops and roleplaying games. These experiences enable people to explore the long-term climate impacts of global policy and investment decisions.

En-ROADS is being developed by Climate Interactive, Ventana Systems, UML Climate Change Initiative, and MIT Sloan.

  • Topics on: Climate Justice, Climate Policy, Climate Science, Climate Sustainability, Decarbonization, Energy, Environmental Economics, Mitigation, Net Zero, Net Zero Strategies

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ERB Institute
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ERB Impact Projects, Graduate Dual-Degree

Impact Projects are the signature action-based learning opportunity of the Erb Institute.

Student-Led Projects

Do you have an idea that will drive business sustainability impact? Consider applying for Impact Project funding! Impact Projects are your opportunity to take your learning into your own hands. We offer financial support to help bring your ideas to life. Impact Projects have the additional benefit of helping to build your capacity and network and further your career goals. Past projects have included hands-on field experiences, prototyping for social enterprise start-ups, credentialed learning and certifications, as well as participation at sustainability conferences.

Partner-Led Projects

In addition to sourcing your own projects, you’ll also have an opportunity to work with organizations through projects sourced directly by the Erb Institute faculty and staff. We work closely with businesses and non-profit partners within our network to drive sustainability initiatives forward and scope projects where partners can leverage the knowledge and passion of Erb students and make progress towards their business and sustainability goals. You will have the opportunity to join specialized project teams in order to tackle pressing business challenges and provide recommendations to improve sustainability outcomes. Projects vary in length and students typically receive a stipend for their work. Past partner-led Impact Projects have been sourced from companies such as Amazon, Lime, Panera, and Carhartt.

Think Big

As an Erb student, we’ll encourage you to take control of your own learning, think outside of the box, and create a project that will help you grow as a student and as a steward of the environment. On the largest scale, we’ve had students work with former Peace Corps partners to launch impact-driven projects.

Outside the Classroom

While many Impact Projects are large in scale, we also offer this funding as an opportunity for you to take your learning outside of the University of Michigan campus. Utilize Impact Project funding to attend sustainability conferences, compete in case competitions, earn certifications,  and present at symposiums.

Sustainability + Justice

Diversity, equity, inclusion, social, environmental and racial justice are a core part of our work at the Erb Institute. When you scope an Impact Project, we’ll encourage you to seek out projects that advance work at the nexus of business, sustainability, and justice.

  • Topics on: Climate Investing, Climate Sustainability, Climate Tech

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Open CC
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The Gigaton newsletter

A newsletter that vets the gigaton impact and commercial viability of climate solutions so people know where their careers can have the biggest impact.

  • Topics on: Climate Tech

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Open CC
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Transformative Skills Guide: Expanding the Definition of Climate Literacy (Draft 1.7)

This guide to transformative skills for climate action expands climate literacy to encompass those inner skills, qualities and capacities that help translate scientific understanding into transformative shifts in the way we do things, individually and collectively. The hope is that this guide will help educators and practitioners shift culture and equip the whole of society with these essential inner resources.

Consultation Draft, 1.7

  • Topics on: Climate Justice, Climate Policy, Climate Resilence, Climate Sustainability, Environmental Leadership, Social Impact and Sustainability

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Open CC
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UN PRME: Climate Literary Training

Climate Literacy training to tackle the climate crisis and promote climate solutions

Are you concerned about the climate crisis? Are you concerned about how businesses and societies will be affected by the climate crisis and want to find out ways you could still mitigate the risks? Do you want to link the Covid-19-recovery with a transition to a low-carbon economy addressing social inequalities simultaneously?

The climate crisis is one of the greatest challenges we are currently facing, and it will affect all aspects of business and society and all other areas we might be concerned about such as economic recovery poverty or loss of biodiversity. Consequently, graduates and employees with the know-how in tackling environmental and social issues to cope with future challenges have a competitive advantage in the job market.

  • Topics on: Climate Sustainability

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Open CC
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Climate Risk Wiki

The Climate Risk Wiki is an open-source platform designed to facilitate collaboration and knowledge-sharing around climate-related financial risks. It hosts datasets, analytical tools, and methods focused on physical and transition risks, aiming to support stakeholders like financial institutions, policymakers, and researchers.

  • Topics on: Decision, Risk, and Operations

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Josh Spodek
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Sustainability Simplified How-To Workbook

This is the workbook that accompanies my book Sustainability Simplified, releasing late October 2024.

It teaches the Spodek Method experientially. The Spodek Method is a leadership technique that leads people through intrinsic motivation, not extrinsic. It avoids convincing, cajoling, coercing, and otherwise relying on extrinsic motivation, which may get compliance but tends to reinforce beliefs driving the behavior we want to change.

It leads to changing culture.

  • Topics on: Climate Justice, Climate Sustainability, Climate Tech, Corporate Sustainability Strategy, Decarbonization, ESG, Renewable Energy, Social Impact and Sustainability

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ERB Institute
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ERB Toolbox Series, Climate Change Strategies for Detroit Small Businesses

Each of our Erb Institute toolboxes is designed to help you better implement decision-making strategies for sustainability at your company. These toolboxes cover a wide variety of topics and are routinely updated to keep up with changing innovations and trends.

  • Topics on: Climate Justice, Climate Sustainability, Decision, Risk, and Operations

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Gernot Wagner
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Climate Knowledge Initiative: Scaling Solar

Columbia Business School’s Climate Knowledge Initiative provides business leaders with the curated, actionable knowledge needed to pick investable and scalable green technologies, while unapologetically flagging areas where business and public interests diverge.

This PPT deck and PDF provides a deep dive into what it would take to scale the solar industry.

  • Topics on: Climate Investing, Climate Tech, Energy

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Gernot Wagner
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Climate Knowledge Initiative: Greening Hydrogen

Columbia Business School’s Climate Knowledge Initiative provides business leaders with the curated, actionable knowledge needed to pick investable and scalable green technologies, while unapologetically flagging areas where business and public interests diverge.

This PPT deck and PDF provides a deep dive into what it would take to green hydrogen.

  • Topics on: Climate Investing, Climate Tech, Energy

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Open CC
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Climate Basics (Center for Climate and Energy Solutions)

The Center for Climate and Energy Solutions—or C2ES—forges practical and innovative solutions to address climate change and engages with leading businesses to accelerate climate progress. Founded in 1998 as the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, C2ES is known worldwide as a thought leader and trusted convener on climate change and energy. We consistently rank among the world’s leading environmental policy think tanks in the University of Pennsylvania Global Go To Think Tank Index.

Educator Resources – https://www.c2es.org/content/teacher-resources/

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Gernot Wagner
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Climate Knowledge Initiative: Storing Energy

Columbia Business School’s Climate Knowledge Initiative provides business leaders with the curated, actionable knowledge needed to pick investable and scalable green technologies, while unapologetically flagging areas where business and public interests diverge.

This PPT deck and PDF provides a deep dive into what it would take to store energy at scale.

  • Topics on: Climate Investing, Climate Tech, Energy

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Open CC
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Implementing the Steps to Resilience: A Practitioner’s Guide (Second Edition)

Guide developed by the U.S. NOAA Climate Program Office

This guide is intended to be used in two ways. The first is during synchronous and asynchronous training. Practitioners may use this as a workbook, marking it up with notes or filling out exercises. The second is as guidance when working with a community to implement the Steps to Resilience.

Each chapter corresponds to one of the Steps to Resilience and begins with objectives, a list of resources (such as worksheets and other guidance), roles and responsibilities for project team members, opportunities for community participation, and questions for assessing success.

Among those resources are two fully articulated examples of working through the Steps to Resilience in Charleston, SC, Louisville, KY and the fictional town of Nautilus. These examples are woven into a formal training program developed to help people learn and apply the Steps to Resilience in their own community focused planning and implementation.

The bulk of this material is presented as practical guidance rather than academic context. Supporting resources are available in two formats: (1) exercises and worksheets that are meant to be completed by practitioners, members of the planning team, or both; and (2) documented guidance, with in-depth facilitation tips, presentation templates, sources of information, collections of external resources, and job aids. Table 1 outlines all of the steps and objectives presented throughout this guide.

Given varying capacities, different pathways and levels of detail may be needed as practitioners and community members work through the Steps to Resilience. The Steps to Resilience should be applied flexibly to serve the needs of the community.

  • Topics on: Climate Policy, Climate Resilence, Climate Sustainability

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ERB Institute
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ERB Toolboxes, Impact Assessment

Each of our Erb Institute toolboxes is designed to help you better implement decision-making strategies for sustainability at your company. These toolboxes cover a wide variety of topics and are routinely updated to keep up with changing innovations and trends.

  • Topics on: Climate Finance, Climate Investing, Climate Sustainability, Climate Tech

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Gernot Wagner
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Climate Knowledge Initiative: Storing Energy: Five Key Points

Columbia Business School’s Climate Knowledge Initiative provides business leaders with the curated, actionable knowledge needed to pick investable and scalable green technologies, while unapologetically flagging areas where business and public interests diverge.

This article focused on four key points for business leaders working on energy storage.

  • Topics on: Climate Investing, Climate Tech, Energy

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ERB Institute
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ERB Toolboxes, Metrics and Reporting

Each of our Erb Institute toolboxes is designed to help you better implement decision-making strategies for sustainability at your company. These toolboxes cover a wide variety of topics and are routinely updated to keep up with changing innovations and trends.

  • Topics on: Business Analytics, Climate Sustainability, Climate Tech

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Open CC
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Marketplace Simulations: Conscious Capitalism – Bikes (Play against the computer)

This is the play against the computer version of Conscious Capitalism. For the play against classmates version, see https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/MP0015-HTM-ENG. Now available in English, Portuguese, and Spanish.

The goal of the Conscious Capitalism® Bikes simulation is to develop conscious leaders that build sustainable businesses that benefit all stakeholders. Target Course: Capstone strategy, management, and entrepreneurship for undergraduates and graduates. Students are challenged to operate a conscious business in contrast to the traditional profit-maximizing paradigm. They deal with ethical, environmental, and sustainability issues in addition to the usual management challenges of running a business. It is fun, realistic, relevant, and spirited. Conscious Capitalism® Bikes is a collaborative effort between Conscious Capitalism, Inc and the makers of Marketplace simulations. Game Scenario: Student teams start up an international bicycle company. Two innovative technologies, an economical form of carbon fiber and advanced 3D printers, make it possible to build carbon fiber bikes of any size and shape. The new carbon fiber bikes are still pricey, but more affordable than current models. Will buyers pay the premium for a light weight, really cool, carbon fiber bike tailored to their needs? There is also a new mindset emerging in global commerce, Conscious Capitalism. Will the students take on an expanded goal to become a profitable, conscious business that aligns and harmonizes the interests of employees, customers, suppliers, the community, and shareholders? Instructor Involvement: Instructor/student interaction is encouraged. Students are highly receptive to coaching, targeted lectures, and exercises that enhance their business skills. Student work is online, self-guided with an intuitive interface, built-in instructions, help files, and helpful warnings. There are 6 decision rounds of 2 to 3 hours. Designed for small to medium classes, team or individual play. This product was designed and developed to comply with WCAG 2.0 AA standards.

  • Topics on: Climate Finance

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