Business & Finance

Following the Los Angeles fires, Chelsea Kirk launched The Rent Brigade: “a collective of tenant organizers, advocates, web programmers, designers, researchers, and other Angelenos using data to fight back against predatory landlords”...

“You look at Bezos and the folks he’s hanging out with in the billionaires club, and you realise this is about more than Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi),” Doreen Satbinsky said. “Bezos is bowing down to Trump in a way a bunch of billionaires are bowing down to Trump.”

The destruction of Nancy Steele and her family’s honey business was featured in the Guardian with compelling before and after photos and interviews. They face an uphill battle to rebuild after losing 30 years of producing honey with 188 hives.

Will putting a price on nature help us protect it or will it become another tool for greenwashing?

“Environmental Social Governance) is in the crosshairs of a conservative campaign against woke capitalism,” Saad writes. She argues “that a “corporate technocracy” provides a solution for redeeming the possibilities of ESG by addressing and overcoming key governance critiques.”

Several Switzer Fellows are presenting at the 2024 Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting taking place in Honolulu Hawai’i from April 16-20, 2024. Fellows’ presentations are on an array of diverse topics: climate...

Aisha Saad says corporate technocracy could steer companies toward more effective ESG policies to avoid distraction by polarizing political causes.

“What happens in the budget office or with people who are making decisions about municipal bonds, all of those things are very opaque,” said lead author and 2023 Switzer Fellow Claudia Diezmartínez.

“Global climate goals will not be met without significant reductions in emissions related to the construction and operation of buildings,” Susan writes. “Together, development finance institutions, governments and the private sector can bring to light a new way of building housing and infrastructure following a more sustainable, climate-friendly path than in the past.”