… Yale Climate and Energy Institute on November 12, 2015. Bob Litterman, former head of risk management for Goldman-Sachs, hopes that society will be as lucky as he … he’d recently published that used the analogy of a driver traveling at a high rate of speed on a potentially dangerous road. Litterman’s latest vehicle for addressing climate … he’d recently published that used the analogy of a driver traveling at a high rate of speed on a potentially dangerous road. Litterman’s latest vehicle for addressing climate …
… new senior director of solar ambassadors, spoke to students from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and the Yale School of Management as part of the GE Colloquium on Sustainability Leadership , a lecture series presented by the Yale Center for Business and the Environment . Frances Beinecke, YC ’71, FES ’74, former president of …
… funding is estimated to total around $4-6 million. Applications are due by Dec. 10. For facility-scale installations, the amount of the source energy that must be displaced is 20 percent – and for renewable energy and/or combined heat and power, projects should produce at least 10 kW, said Lizana Pierce, project manager at DOE’s Office of Indian Energy. For community-scale installations, there is no minimum source-energy percentage, but the …
… of the latter and cases featuring the US energy company’s massive financial fraud are therefore taught in business schools around the world. Here are seven reasons why the Volkswagen … … Sep 28, 2015 Seven reasons Volkswagen is worse than Enron Yale SOM's David Bach writes for the Financial Times David Bach It has only been a week since the stunning revelation … disease. Read the full story on Financial TImes Related Events GNAM Faculty Webinar on Sustainability Leadership Tue, October 21st, 2014, 4:30 AM EDT — 5:30 AM EDT Online Related …
… At a panel discussion on September 15, Yale School of Management and Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (FES) joint-degree students shared some of the lessons they … different organizations and were able to observe varying aspects of the growing role that sustainability plays in corporate enterprises today—and its challenges. Read the full story … At a panel discussion on September 15, Yale School of Management and Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (FES) joint-degree students shared some of the lessons they …
… of regular expectations; Carried an extreme impact; and Made us concoct explanations for their occurrence after the fact, making them explainable and predictable. When we … events, by definition, provide a useful lens for the analysis of environmental and social sustainability impacts. The Black Swans of Sustainability The last 50 years, since the … threats, they also force change and innovation — two elements critical to sustainability. 2195 Thriving Food Systems and Nature Based Solutions Clean Energy Circularity Equity and …
… What is hindering the availability of public capital and financing options for distributed solar? To some in structured finance, it seems like a great fit: solar … can be pooled and traded as liquid capital. In order to profit from this great opportunity for solar growth, investors and consumers demand standards and consistency from the … for Clean Energy Tue, April 7th, 2015, 9:00 AM EDT — 10:00 AM EDT Online Yale Environmental Sustainability Summit (YESS) Fri, November 6th, 2015, 6:00 AM EST — Sat, November 7th, 2015, …
… Originally posted on the Clean Energy Finance Forum Imagine you could design the electricity market in one state from scratch. There are … conversations about distributed energy resources by soliciting energy market designs for a hypothetical state. Of the 13 proposals, three were selected by the Innovation Review Panel for further development at a recently held SEPA summit: Karl Rábago and Jim Kennerly: “ The …
… On a night when most of Connecticut fretted about the bleak, snowy forecast, 15 residents of Avon considered a bright, sunny future. They were gathered in the … wave—word of solar expanding ever outward. Or so I’d been told. As a research assistant for SEEDS , a project that is tracking the Solarize program, I had read a great deal about … fall and cut the power. What happens when the grid goes down? Can I run the electricity for my home off the panels?” Barbara began to respond, explaining that the basic grid-tied …
… that states interested in boosting EV adoption rates should support the purchase of cars before investing in charging stations. With more EVs on the road, the private market will build infrastructure. For EV supporters, this has long been a “chicken-and-egg” policy question: where should the … York, which ranks 25 th nationwide in new EV registration, against those in Georgia and California, two states with leading rates of EV adoption, the researchers helped bring clarity …