Ep 119 — Corporate Climate Targets Project Tracks Commitments and Actions on GHG Emissions

EELP founding director and Harvard Law professor Jody Freeman talks with Mike Toffel, a professor at Harvard Business School and faculty chair of the HBS Business and Environment Initiative, and Joe Aldy, a professor of the practice of environmental policy at Harvard Kennedy School. Jody, Mike, and Joe discuss the Salata Institute Corporate Climate Targets Database, a new tool they've developed to track climate commitments and emissions trends across Russell 3000 companies over the past 25 years. They discuss insights from the database, such as how companies respond when a target is set and how they adapt to shifting regulatory requirements. This free, interactive tool will help researchers evaluate which policies drive decarbonization and what durable, effective climate disclosure policy could look like at the federal level.

Transcript: https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/EP119-Transcript.pdf Corporate Climate Targets Project dashboard: https://salatainstitute.harvard.edu/cctp/ The Salata Institute’s Corporate Climate Targets Research Initiative: https://salatainstitute.harvard.edu/research-initiatives/corporate-climate-targets-project/