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Empowering Young Leaders to Solve the World’s Energy Challenges: Insights From Nine Business Case Studies Highlight Paths to a Sustainable Future

James Militzer

In retrospect, how should the VW CEO have reacted to the news from the EPA? Were the sustainability measures and corporate social responsibility offices at VW simply engaged in greenwashing? Since large-scale production of Tesla vehicles only started in 2013, most of these vehicles are still on the road.

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Advancing Climate Justice Priorities Over Profit-Led Research

Stanford Social Innovation

Net-zero campaigns also spur well-intentioned, yet harmful, investments in greenwashed technologies , such as carbon capture tech, which are fossil-fuel and energy intensive and emit more carbon than they take away , undermining the central premise of net-zero. Following the recent EPA v. This summer’s West Virginia v.

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