Jody Freeman

[on-hold music] Welcome to Clean Law from the Environmental and Energy Law Program at Harvard Law School.

In this episode, 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, professor of the practice of environmental policy at the 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 twenty-five years.

They share insights from the database, like how companies respond to a set target and adapt to shifting regulatory requirements.

We hope you enjoy this podcast.

Welcome to Clean Law.

I'm Jody Freeman, and today we have a very special episode with two of my best colleagues and good friends, Mike Toffel and Joe Aldy.

Welcome, guys.

The United States faces a critical question: Can the country build the energy infrastructure it needs fast enough to support economic growth while advancing the clean energy transition? As Congress debates the scope and timing for permitting reforms, we're sharing a special joint episode of Clean Law and Climate Rising recorded earlier this summer.

EELP Founding Director and Harvard Law School professor Jody Freeman and Harvard Business School professor Mike Toffel sit down with Nat Keohane, president of the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions, to discuss why building new energy infrastructure has become so difficult, what permitting reforms could accelerate clean energy deployment and transmission, how AI is reshaping this debate, and why solving these challenges may be essential to both climate progress and American competitiveness.

We hope you enjoy this episode.

[upbeat music] It's great to be with you, Mike, and Nat, thanks for being our guest.

Today's episode features Nat Keohane, president of the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions, or C2ES, a nonpartisan organization in Washington, D.C., that works with policymakers and companies to accelerate the transition to a net zero emissions economy.

I'm joined by my colleague, Jody Freeman, a Harvard Law School professor who specializes in environmental law and is a co-host of the Clean Law podcast.

We're going to discuss the energy transition necessary to reduce carbon emissions and explore why it's not moving faster and what can be done to accelerate it.

Here's my conversation with Nat Keohane and Jody Freeman.

Nat and Jody, thanks so much for being on this special episode, uh, jointly produced by Climate Rising and Clean Law with my co-host, Jody Freeman.

It's great to be with you, Mike.

And Nat, thanks for being our guest.

Great to be here.