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E&E News reports on HBS study: 74% of S&P 500 companies revised emissions data

U.S. companies routinely revise their own greenhouse gas emissions estimates, researchers at Harvard Business School have found. And they’re usually correcting upward — meaning their previous numbers were too low.
News Harvard Research
Fri, Dec 5, 2025
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New York Times features extreme heat research led by the Salata Institute

"Since 2024, researchers at Harvard have been following the lives of nearly 300 informal women workers, mainly in Ahmedabad. The women agreed to wear Fitbits for the duration of the study, being conducted with SEWA, and have heat sensors installed in their homes. The Fitbits, along with smartphones given to the participants, track heart rates, sleep patterns and other data."
News Harvard Research
Tue, Nov 18, 2025

Permitting gridlock threatens America’s energy future

Strengthening Communities Cluster's Steve Ansolabehere brings expertise on permitting to a new Harvard Business School report on the threats facing the United States' energy grid.
Cluster Research News Harvard Research
Mon, Nov 17, 2025

Harvard-MIT research shapes COP30 initiative on carbon market integration

Brazil, the EU, and China, among others, have committed to establish an Open Coalition on Compliance Carbon Markets to discuss carbon pricing and trade rules – a framework informed by the Global Climate Policy Project at Harvard and MIT.
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Fri, Nov 7, 2025

Research Brief: Satellite quantification of methane emissions from South American countries

The Methane Initiative has released a new research brief, summarizing research on satellite-based detection and quantification of methane emissions in South America.
Cluster Research News White Paper Harvard Research Methane
Wed, Nov 5, 2025
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Climate migration and data centers: Salata Institute funds five new research projects

Today the Salata Institute announced a seventh round of seed grant awards for work on understudied and emerging topics in climate and sustainability. With this support, Harvard researchers will examine drivers of climate migration, the value of neighborhood trees, and the future of hyperscale data center construction in the United States.
News Harvard Research
Tue, Nov 4, 2025
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When work ends, the heat doesn’t

Salata Institute researchers argue that heat protections can’t end at the worksite: Many low-wage workers across the Global South return to homes that stay dangerously hot overnight.
Cluster Research News Harvard Research
Tue, Nov 4, 2025
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Faculty Associate Naomi Oreskes wins 2025 Volvo Environment Prize

Harvard historian of science honored for illuminating how consensus forms and unmasking disinformation in climate discourse.
News Harvard Research
Fri, Oct 31, 2025
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Humidity turns urban heat into an all-night threat

Research led by HUCE fellow shows that moisture slows surface cooling after sunset, pushing coastal and urban areas into more hours of dangerous heat.
News Harvard Research
Fri, Oct 31, 2025
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New global mobility data now available for Harvard research

The dataset has applications for public transport network design in developing megacities and other complex problems in sustainable urban mobility.
Cluster Research News Harvard Research
Thu, Oct 30, 2025

Residential Battery Storage—Reshaping the Way We Do Electricity

A new paper from HBS uses granular data from German customers to study why households invested in residential battery storage as early as 2015- despite some back of the envelope math showing that it was not profitable.
News Harvard Research
Fri, Oct 17, 2025

Research Brief: An improved research and stakeholder tool for monitoring total methane emissions

The Methane Initiative has released a new research brief, summarizing an enhanced tool for identifying and quantifying methane emissions, based on satellite observations.
Cluster Research News White Paper Harvard Research Methane
Tue, Oct 14, 2025