Currently, community risks consider only a few parameters such as extreme weather, employment rates and business outlooks. The current practice is a singular standard ESG score for a country or region, ignoring significant sub-national spatial differences or differential importance of ESG factors in estimating the risk profile. The result are general assessments that lack the precision of more granular/investment-grade analyses. But, the world...

Online Professional Education CourseSelf-Paced with Three Webinars with the InstructorOctober 15, 2019 – November 11, 2019Complete by December 15, 2019 Earn a Professional Education Certificate from George Washington University’s School of Engineering and Applied Science. A GWU collaboration with the Security and Sustainability Forum Course Starts: October 15, 2019. Self-Paced Videos Plus Live Webinars: Students watch twenty-three...

Vanguard municipalities are finding replicable ways to pay for climate resilience investments. Cities that have begun implementing climate resilience projects have used distinct strategies to to obtain public and private financial resources that pay for large-scale climate-resilience. These strategies amount to an initial approach—"Playbook 1.0"—for deciding who will pay what and how city governments will generate the needed revenu...

Julian Bentley is a professor in George Washington University's Environmental & Energy Management Institute teaching the popular online professional education short course "On the Road to Mass Market Electric Vehicles". Julian has been an energy consultant to federal agencies, utilities and industry for over 20 years. Since 2007, Julian has supported the Federal Fleet Program, assisting Federal agencies in developing and implementing compr...

It is imperative to capture 20 GT of carbon from the air in the next 20 years, and that will require contributions from all sectors including agriculture, industrial processes and direct air capture. What is the scorecard in each sector and how does each trajectory look? What are the drivers, and how can the pace of innovation and commercialization of new solutions be accelerated to scale rapidly enough to get to 20 GT in time? This webinar wi...

September 11, 2019 1:15 to 2:45 PM EDT Register at https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/7682777426333033217 Today 1.06 billion people, or 20% of the World population, live without access to electricity (IEA and World Bank, 2017), mostly living in rural Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. They rely on torches and candles for lighting, and muscle power for most everything else. The result is a subsistence local economy. Providing reliable an...

The United States is facing a potentially staggering expansion of dangerous heat over the coming decades. This Union of Concerned Scientist analysis, Killer Heat in the United States: The Future of Dangerously Hot Days, shows the rapid, widespread increases in extreme heat that are projected to occur across the country due to climate change, including conditions so extreme that a heat index cannot be measured. The analysis also finds that the...

Thu, Sep 5, 2019 1:15 PM – 2:15 PM EDT Join SSF in a sixty minute webinar with Hazel Henderson, world renowned futurist, evolutionary economist, worldwide syndicated columnist, and leader in sustainable development. We will discuss science-based investing, which is the focus of the 2019/20 addition of her Green Transition Scorecard Report. Hazel is the founder of Ethical Markets Media, Certified B Corporation and the creator and co-execu...

Please join SSF, and the Environmental and Energy Institute at George Washington University in a discussion with energy futurist, author, keynote speaker, entrepreneur and educator, Jimmy Jia. Jimmy is the author of “The Book of Energy Leadership Frameworks” and “Driven by Demand: How Energy Gets its Power“. In this webinar Jimmy discusses with me the role of a new corporate position he calls the Corporate Energy Strate...

Please join SSF, and our co-hosts the Environmental and Energy Institute at George Washington University and the American Renewable Energy Institute in a 60-minute discussion of the renewable energy landscape and the rate of renewable deployment. We will also examine the rationale for an increased role for hydrogen in the clean energy mix of the future. Why Talk about Hydrogen? Because it will be difficult to meet climate goals with electrific...