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IMAP Affiliated Faculty, Suchi Gopal, will give the keynote lecture at the November 6 New England Chapter of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (NEURISA) conference in Worcester, MA. She’ll be talking about how the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Deep Learning with Spatial
Back in the spring of 2021, a hedge fund called Engine Number 1 was able to elect three of its candidates to the ExxonMobil Board of Directors, making news headlines. IMAP-funded faculty, Nalin Kulatilaka and Robert Kaufmann, delved into the motives behind Engine Number 1’s
The summer flew by and now the IGS Grad Student Summer Fellows have wrapped up their projects. IMAP supported the work of Claudia Diezmartínez and Sakshi Sharma. Claudia conducted independent research on how cities across the United States are financing climate action and incorporating climate
IMAP is hosting two summer fellows as part of the IGS Graduate Student Summer Fellows program. Sakshi Sharma will be building a database for the Corporate Carbon Risk project and Claudia Diezmartínez will be piloting a method to assess and compare climate finance across US
IMAP affiliated faculty Michelle Amazeen and Chris Wells shared their research findings on misleading “native advertising,” at the May 16, 2023 research symposium hosted by the Institute for Global Sustainability. Fossil fuel companies pay for native advertising, which is hard to distinguish from regular news
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The Workings of GFANZ’ Net Zero Commitment Mechanism A Reply to Tom Gosling’s Trouble Ahead for GFANZ Blog Post Jan 10, 2023 Peter Fox-Penner, Senior fellow, Boston University IMAP and Institute for Global Sustainability, Chief Impact Officer of Energy Impact Partners, and advisor to the
Our first in-person workshop was a great success! On October 7, 2022, researchers, academics, investors, and corporate leaders gathered on Boston University’s campus for the IMAP Fall 2022 Workshop to discuss how we can make corporate carbon targets more effective. Read more here
Calvert Research and Management President John Streur is a member of the IMAP’s Advisory Board and participated in the IMAP’s fall workshop on corporate carbon targets. He shares his key takeaways from participating in the event on the Calvert blog.
Beware of ESG Ratings: My Cautionary Tale from the 2022 Inaugural Cornell ESG Conference Alicia Zhang, PhD Candidate in Earth & Environment at Boston University In July 2022, I attended the inaugural ESG conference held at Cornell University. The conference highlighted the hopefulness and optimism
We are pleased to announce our first in-person workshop this fall! On Friday October 7, 2022 we will bring together industry leaders and academic researchers to discuss how we can make corporate carbon targets more effective in reducing carbon emissions.
