… renewable energy finance markets in the United States by providing high-quality industry news, building professional dialogue and fostering innovation. Alongside its signature biweekly newsletter, which includes original feature articles on growing trends in the renewable … Finance Center (CEFC), the Forum was originally called the Clean Energy Finance Source newsletter. At the end of 2013, the Yale Center for Business and the Environment took the …
… the prize. We allow solutions at all stages of development that tackle these four areas of impact, as long as there is potential for impact and the idea is viable. 1 We looked at three frameworks to identify these key areas of impact and action. Project Drawdown’s framework Planetary Boundaries framework United …
… focused on multiple issues including infrastructure finance, economic development and impact analysis. Previously, he was a senior advisor to the director of the U.S. Pension … space, Dr. Cort is working on: 1) Metrics and standards for measuring the environmental impacts of fixed income investment products such as green bonds 2) Metrics and the … Modern China. He is also Co-Founder and Director of the Carbon Tracker Initiative and Real Impact Tracker, member of the NY State Common Decarbonization Advisory Panel appointed by …
… growth and provide new jobs. Research Report Download the report In the News Stuart DeCew, Director at the Yale Center for Business and the Environment, discusses key insights from the research on MSNBC's Greenhouse: Other Media Financial Times: " Teaching the impact of climate change to the leaders of tomorrow " Hartford Business: " Business students …
… such as lack of economic opportunity, racial injustice, health disparities, and the impacts of a warming planet. Can investment be strategically and responsibly deployed to … spaces. This discussion will bring together investors and researchers to discuss how impact-investing can help strengthen communities in the face of multiple intersecting … a SustainVC Brian Murray, Co-founder of Shift Capital Anna Blanding, Managing Director of Impact Investing at ConnCat 2828 Environmental Innovation Sustainable Finance and ESG …
… As society grapples with how to control CO 2 emissions from power generation, potentially detrimental impacts of alternative sources of electricity come into increasing focus. Policy advocates … strategies to secure environmental gains and identify projects with high environmental impacts. 2553 Equity and Justice Clean Energy Green Energy Choices: An Environmental …
… Finance and ESG Equity and Justice Bridging the Gap: How Philanthropy Can Unlock Impact Investing … Bridging the Gap: How Philanthropy Can Unlock Impact Investing -by Abhishri Aggarwal, Kate Logan, Namrita Kapur Overview Impact investing holds great potential where philanthropy falls short—mobilizing the scale …
… Are cultivated meat, seitan, and insect protein the future of food? The outsized climate impacts of traditional animal agriculture are now well known, leading to a consciousness … carbon and water-intense foods, like beef, with items that have a lighter environmental impact. Speakers will include Dr. Laura Scherer from the University of Leiden who will … scientist working in cultivated meat at the Good Food Institute. Cognizant of the outsized impact animal agriculture has on deforestation, biodiversity loss, surface and groundwater …
… Palm oil is everywhere. Not only is it in the news, it is also an ingredient in roughly half of the products we buy. However, it is not … other vegetable oils, production pressures have led to undeniable environmental and social impacts on both global and local scales. The most notable of those impacts stem from … Links are provided throughout to useful videos, audio, images, primary literature, news articles, and reports, and to particularly relevant sections of the Yale School of …
… for Sustainable Development Investing Sam Hilton and Joanne Lee, WWF – Assessing Portfolio Impact – Tools to Measure Biodiversity and SDG Footprints of Financial Portfolios Ulrich … the Talk? Kelly Clark and Magali Delmas, University of California, Los Angeles – Increasing IMPACT: An Assessment of ESG Metrics and Recommendations to Improve Their Utility 12:30 – … Nathaniel Springer and Susanna Gibbons, University of Minnesota – Quantifying the impact of green bonds: using life-cycle assessment to measure comprehensive financial and …