2023 Summer Fellows wrap up their projects

The summer flew by and now the IGS Grad Student Summer Fellows have wrapped up their projects. IMAP supported the work of Claudia Diezmartínez and Sakshi Sharma.

Claudia conducted independent research on how cities across the United States are financing climate action and incorporating climate justice into their municipal budgets. She performed a deep dive into the inner workings of municipal finance for three cities that have explicitly incorporated justice into their climate action planning: Portland, OR; Dallas; and San Diego, by doing a content analysis of their municipal budgets and capital finance plans. Long-term, this project will provide actionable information for urban decision-makers on how best to fund and finance climate action across cities of different sizes and the implications of these financial decisions on the implementation of just urban transitions.

Sakshi built a comprehensive database system in MongoDB, complemented by a user-friendly web application, developed using Flask. The system consolidates diverse company data, incorporates web scraping from Yahoo Finance, and is seamlessly deployed on AWS for convenient access and future scalability. The database will allow IMAP’s Corporate Carbon Risk project to better analyze carbon reduction data within and across industry sectors, which will in turn help the project to develop a reliable methodology for predicting the likelihood of companies achieving their future carbon reduction targets.

Recently, all of the IGS Graduate Student Summer Fellows presented their work. Pastries from the North End were enjoyed by all.