June 30, 2021 Ashmit Vyas Ashmit Vyas is a rising senior in the School of Arts & Sciences majoring in Economics and in the Benjamin Franklin Scholars Program. Ashmit is interested in learning about ways in which government can work with firms to develop sustainable growth strategies; how world leaders…Read More
ESG Initiative News
Encouraging Resiliency With Auto-Enrollment in Supplemental Flood Insurance Coverage
June 17, 2021 Lynn Conell-Price Can private insurance encourage homeowners to adapt their properties in order to reduce escalating flood losses from climate change? In a new research study with my coauthors, Howard Kunreuther and Carolyn Kousky, we find substantial demand for a novel supplementary flood insurance product that funds…Read More
WIVA Helps Facilitate Impact Investment into Ed-Tech Startup mytaptrack
The student team at Wharton Impact Venture Associates (WIVA) researched education technology startup mytaptrack and connected them to the crowdfunding platform Netcapital. …Read More
Using Nudges to Encourage Alternative Protein Consumption
June 8, 2021 Katie Collier Katie Collier is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences studying Philosophy, Politics, and Economics with a minor in Cognitive Science. In addition to studying behavioral economics and decision making, she is interested in how the alternative protein market can mitigate the effects…Read More
A Q&A on California’s Proposed Revolving Loan Program for Coastal Retreat
June 1, 2021 Helen Wiley, interviewer California’s coast is threatened by the impacts of sea level rise with projections indicating a half-foot rise by 2030, a two-foot rise by 2050, and a seven-foot rise by 2100. Increased sea levels will exacerbate the damage caused by coastal erosion, and storm surge,…Read More
Washington DC’s Environmental Impact Bond – A Q&A with Benjamin Cohen
May 25, 2021 Alison Milman Alison Millman is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences studying Philosophy, Politics, and Economics with a minor in Sustainability and Environmental Management. In addition to studying environmental governance and novel approaches to social impact, she participated in the Risk Center's Undergraduate Fellowship…Read More
Evaluating Public Education Campaigns for Vaccinations: A Q&A with Elissa Kranzler
May 18, 2021 Zoë Linder-Baptie Elissa Kranzler, PhD, is a social scientist and former Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Wharton Risk Center (2018-2020). She studies the relationship between media messaging and risk behaviors. We spoke with her this spring to hear about her current position and the connections to her…Read More
How to Overcome Cognitive Biases Against Climate Action
May 9, 2021 Howard Kunreuther and Robert Meyer This blog post originally appeared in The Hill’s Changing America as an Opinion Piece on April 21, 2021. The Biden administration has clearly indicated that climate change is a critically important issue on its agenda. Given the polarization of the country, a challenge…Read More
Status Update: Climate Action & the SEC
April 19, 2021 Ben Thomas Investors are increasingly concerned with how their investments are affected by the impacts of climate change and the role that companies they invest in play in the transition to a low-carbon economy. This concern has not gone unnoticed by regulators and financial institutions—including the Securities…Read More
A Case for Forward-Looking Environmental Risk Communication Around Lead Poisoning in Northern Nigeria
April 1, 2021 Eve Robinson Eve Robinson is a fourth-year student in the University of Pennsylvania’s Huntsman Program. She is concentrating in Environmental Policy and Management at Wharton and studying International Studies in the College. Her interests are in environmental justice, education policy, and urban sustainable development. From 2010 to…Read More