… -by Abhishri Aggarwal, Kate Logan, Namrita Kapur Thriving Food Systems and Nature Based SolutionsSustainable Finance and ESG Equity and Justice Bridging the Gap: How Philanthropy Can Unlock Impact Investing … Bridging the Gap: How Philanthropy Can Unlock Impact Investing … holds great potential where philanthropy fallsshort—mobilizing the scale of financial resources needed to address the world’s pressing problems. According to the Global Impact …
… Rates of mental health concerns for children and adolescents are high across the United States … for children of color and low-income urban youth, who face multiple barriers to accessing nature and gaining treatment for mental health concerns. The land conservation community … can take to begin offering nature-based programing for America’s youth aimed at bringing the mental health benefits of the outdoors to new, diverse audiences, who may need …
… Awareness of the environmental and societal challenges facing our world has expanded dramatically … work with a sustainability-forward employer. Ourstudents will soon be at the helms of such impactful organizations, and it is incumbent on us to equip them with the knowledge, the …
… model and promotes the elimination of waste through the continual use of natural resources. This holistic framework allows companies to evaluate the environmental impact of their products from natural resource extraction to end-of-life product disposal. … and opportunities associated with each of these models. Thriving Food Systems and Nature Based Solutions Circularity Equity and Justice Fiber Based Packaging: Opportunities …
… When it comes to climate change, the science is unequivocal: global temperatures will continue to rise … on November 4, it is up to corporations to take direct responsibility for their impact on climate change. While many corporations, investors, regulators, and consumers … environmental sustainability — exacerbates this confusion. To cut through the noise, our team from the Yale School of Management narrowed in on one, universal metric that is the …
… This report seeks to address the question of how an organization should design and implement an … is not clear how implementation might differ in a business environment or another setting. Our project seeks to supplement the growing carbon-pricing literature, given the promise of … from increased healthcare costs and exacerbated environmental damage to payment at the source of pollution. By doing so, it incentivizes carbon-emissions reductions and …
… Soil health provides critical ecosystem services related to water quality, drought … staff. Each state has its own policy and agricultural context, so the reader is encouraged to utilize the recommendations that fit their own circumstances. Case examples … Regenerative Agriculture Initiative . Published November 2021 Thriving Food Systems and Nature Based Solutions Equity and Justice Soil Health Policy: Developing Community-Driven …
… Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPSs), using Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) to track and commoditize renewable … power generates electricity during the day, but fails to provide energy during the evening hours when demand peaks. The resulting overproduction and waste of renewable energy — and … energy integration — call for a dramatic change to clean energy policy development. Our research team proposes a new policy framework called the value-based renewable portfolio …
… The objective of this project is to investigate ways that consumers make inferences about green product quality. … heuristic, whereby they assume that companies have a fixed amount of manufacturing resources. Thus, resources devoted to “making the product green” come at the expense of making … Tobias von der Haar/flickr 2203 Equity and Justice Circularity Thriving Food Systems and Nature Based Solutions Framing Effects on Inferences about Green Product Quality … Framing …
… This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the feasibility of designing and financing a … and takeaways from the energy and financial model we developed using Microsoft Excel. Our energy and financial model, published with this report, is built using the Connecticut … case study. It is designed to be easily adapted to analyze other projects. The model uses hourly energy demand and generation data as well as battery dispatch logic to calculate bill …