… Whitney Ave, New Haven, CT Note: Registration is closed. Please reach out to YISF@yale.edu for information about this event. 8:30 – 9:00 Breakfast and Coffee 1st Floor … advisor for climate and energy policy, helping to negotiate the Paris Climate Agreement and other national and international initiatives. Early on in the Obama Administration, Brian … Risk Disclosure Paul Griffin, University of California, Davis – Extreme Heat and Equity Market Physical Climate Risk Leonardo Martinez-Diaz, World Resources Institute – Climate …
… Featuring Pavan Sukhdev (2011 McCluskey Fellow at FES, Former Head of UNEP’s Green Economy Initiative), Yvon Chouinard (Founder of Patagonia), … efforts to ensure that their climbing gear does not deface rock walls, and implemented a marketplace for customers to re-sell used Patagonia products. In Corporation 2020 , … efforts to ensure that their climbing gear does not deface rock walls, and implemented a marketplace for customers to re-sell used Patagonia products. In Corporation 2020 , …
… Carbon markets are a promising mechanism to help finance sustainable forest management practices and conservation projects, yet transaction costs and market structure have limited improved …
… Join us for our first session as we hear from students about their summer internships at the … Taskforce include sustainability leads at Apple, Dell, Cisco, HP, IBM, Microsoft, and others. Harris' work involved coordinating e-waste and recycling policies across member … sustainability goals, and participated in Bigelow’s Green Team to create a monthly theme calendar of activities and social media opportunities. She also learned about how tea is …
… Please join the Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY) for the 2014-2015 season of "Nature’s Returns: Investing in Ecosystem Services". We are … Bright Spots for Resource Mobilization: Regional Trusts by Willy Kostka of the Micronesia Conservation Trust and Yabanex Batista of the Caribbean Biodiversity Fund. In this …
… Dozens of Fortune 500 and other consumer goods companies have publicly committed to eliminate deforestation from their supply chains. But how are these commitments being implemented, and …
… Cradle Design and Circular Economy. We hope you can attend this sure-to-be engaging and informative talk! About William McDonough : William McDonough is a globally recognized leader … Cradle to Cradle Certified™ Products Program. He has been active with the World Economic Forum for 25 years and served as the inaugural chair of their Meta-Council on the Circular … such as Google, Ford Motor Company, Unilever and Walmart. Bill is the author of two other widely influential books: The Hannover Principles: Design for Sustainability (1992),) …
… only in the past few decades that this tropical product has taken off in the international market. An invisible component of many products, palm oil can be found in cookies, in … most heavily traded edible oil in the world. Golden Agri Resources (GAR) has been in the forefront of this palm oil boom in Indonesia. Founded in 1996 by the influential Widjaja … oil companies. On one hand some were resistant to letting plantations set aside land forconservation, since they wanted to maximize opportunities for small farmers. On the other …
… In early 2014 Alcoa announced that Ford's F-150 pick-up trucks, the best-selling vehicles in the U.S., would use … the truck bed and cab. Starting with the 2015 model year, the F-150 would be the first mass-market vehicle to be built with major body construction from aluminum. Alcoa spent $300 million expanding its Iowa factory and planned another $150 million on facilities in Tennessee to meet the demand generated by the Ford …
… Join us for a conversation with Helen Crowley, Head of Sustainable Sourcing Innovation at Kering. … circular economy principles into business. Prior to Kering, Helen worked with the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) for 12 years on conservation strategy, program management and market-based approaches to conservation. She has Ph.D. in Zoology from the Australian …