… This global study of more than 3,700 students at 29 top businessschools, conducted by Yale University … the Global Network for Advanced Management, finds that: Corporations unwilling to act on environmental issues are increasingly punished by the men and women they would like to … percent of students are willing to accept a lower salary to work for a company with better environmental practices. Conversely, about one-fifth of respondents expressed an …
… Awareness of the environmental and societal challenges facing our world has expanded dramatically in recent … laid bare societal strains and inequalities in access to basic healthcare. Extreme weather events have intensified all over the planet. The sixth Intergovernmental Panel on Climate …
… Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPSs), using Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) to track and commoditize renewable … while preserving climate change mitigation benefits. Policymakers have recognized the challenges posed by mismatched load and renewable energy generation resulting from the … markets, such as geographic limitations and time-of-use multipliers, to deliver meaningful environmental outcomes. These proposals tend to fragment markets, resulting in poor economic …
… A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Pollinator-Friendly Solar in Minnesota 6778 2745 2798 2796 2752 … turfgrass. However, we hypothesize that information and behavioral failures are currently preventing developers from adopting the practice. Thus, there may be a role for policy to spur … of this practice. Research is needed to better understand the panel efficiency gains and potential private benefits, as well as the social benefits flowing from the ecosystem …
… Can Ecosystem Services Valuation Bring Additional Value Streams to Minnesota’s Pollinator-Friendly … Finance for Land Conservation at the Energy-Land-Agriculture Nexus Whitney Mann (Master of Environmental Management '19) Katie Siegner (Master of Environmental Management '19) Maria … solar development with a focus on progress in Minnesota. We then discuss the potential for ecosystem services valuation to incentivize pollinator-friendly solar projects …
… Soil health provides critical ecosystem services related to water quality, drought resilience, erosion prevention, crop yields, and carbon sequestration. These benefits - and the practices used to … as nutrient pollution reduction. Soil health is an inherently cooperative goal, in which environmentalists, regulators, and farmers can all find common ground. Across the country, …
… When it comes to climate change, the science is unequivocal: global temperatures will continue to rise for decades, largely due … , devastating hurricanes , and deadly heatwaves — among a litany of other environmental, social, and economic disasters — have changed this. Following the US’ …
… This report seeks to address the question of how an organization should design and implement an internal … pricing works to shift the cost of carbon from increased healthcare costs and exacerbated environmental damage to payment at the source of pollution. By doing so, it incentivizes … … Internal Carbon Pricing: Policy Framework and Case Studies Luke Elder (MBA '19, Master of Environmental Management '19) This report seeks to address the question of how an …
… This report documents the major challenges associated with designing adaptive financing products - and creating solutions … Recovery … Adaptive Finance to Support Post-Disaster Recovery Laura M. Hammett (Master of Environmental Management '17) Katy Mixter (MBA '17, Master of Environmental Management '17) …
… -by Abhishri Aggarwal, Kate Logan, Namrita Kapur Thriving Food Systems and Nature Based Solutions … -by Abhishri Aggarwal, Kate Logan, Namrita Kapur Overview Impact investing holds great potential where philanthropy fallsshort—mobilizing the scale of financial resources needed … gaps, and capacity building—through which philanthropy can serve to mitigate or resolve market failures that inhibit deployment of impact investing capital. In-depth cases on …