… The Yale Center forBusiness and the Environment is delighted to welcome Xavier Rolet to our Advisory Board! … by CBEY’sstrategy to harness the power of Business and Capital Markets to solve the urgent environmental challenges facing humanity." In addition to his extensive experience in …
… By: Natalia Espinosa and Daniel Gonzalez A few weeks ago, 11 Yale University students attended GreenBiz , … Spotlight on Food and Agriculture Without a doubt, the conference emphasized the need for a businesscase when it comes to sustainability, especially within food and agriculture. According to …
… The Yale Center forBusiness and Environment (CBEY) today announced the release of two new reports examining … three factors that make financing regenerative agriculture difficult: outdated financial models; difficult financial returns; and cultural differences between farmers and investors. …
… How might one go about preparing studentsfor the immediate and future realities of climate change? At an institution like … dynamic discoveries and host coveted conversations. This past year at Yale’s Center forBusiness and Environment (CBEY), we flipped conventional wisdom on its head and turned our … future of food sovereignty and designing new commons to disrupting traditional extraction models and deepening our sense of time. As our group met once a month over an extended lunch …
… (CBEY-supported student volunteers (left to right, Sofía John (MEM/MBA ‘24), Cicy Geng (MEM ‘23), … is an initiative by the City of Seattle that offers resources and rebate incentivesforbusinesses to transition from single-use to reusable containers. This has enabled companies … be crucial for companies progressing towards circularity by supporting internal businesscases and holding companies accountable to “circularity” washing. Chemical Recycling …
… The weekend of April 22nd and 23rd there were two conferences going on, in the words of my Uber driver: the coffee one and the fashion one. With one … worn by leaders and up-and-comers in the sustainable fashion space. The Sustainable Fashion Forum Conference 2023: Nuanced Layers was a fashion and environmental lover’s dream. The Sustainable Fashion Forum (SFF), founded by Brittany …
… The fashion industry is one of the most environmentally damaging industries globally, accounting … average US consumer, this is ~82 pounds of clothing every year, disposed annually . Thismodel is unsustainable, damaging to the both the environment and the workers involved in the … industry to change, we must try and reward transparency where possible, as consumers and asbusinesses. Another challenge is the price of synthetic vs. natural materials. Synthetic …
… The Yale Center forBusiness and the Environment (CBEY) is delighted to announce the winner of the 2023 … , created in 2008, awards $25,000 to a promising student business venture that advancesenvironmentalsustainability. As part of Startup Yale , the Sustainable Venture Prize was …
… Recently, 23 teams presented their application to the Climate Innovation Grant , a program that provides independent feedback and seed funding for early-stage innovative solutions addressing climate change. The proposed solutions … in this process. Some of the judges included: Tory Grieves (MBA/MEM '18): is the VP of Business Development at The Climate Service (TCS), a climate analyticsstartup that …
… The Planetary Solutions in Clean Energy - Internship and Fellowship Program (PSiCE) is a new program that … black smoke billowing from a power plant in Houston one fateful road trip was all it took for Yale rising senior Marc Gonzalez to discover he wanted a future in clean energy. That … does not work for many low-income and BIPOC communities, led him to pursue a degree in EnvironmentalStudies with a focus on Energy Justice at Yale College. “I decided to become …