… carbon future Connecticut is one of several New England states that hold lofty ambitions for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050. Achieving this low-carbon future will require, among other things, a transformation of the built environment, which is responsible for around … valuable emission reduction tool, represent mature technologies in an immature New England market; presently, the market is typified by high upfront costs, lack of customer awareness …
… Meat makes for curious math: about 25 calories is required to create just 1 calorie of beef. The ratio … predicts that plant-based meat, currently 0.25 percent of the nearly $200 billion meat market, will grow to one-third of the market by 2054. In the end, Friedrich compared the agricultural shift underway to what took …
… system where renewable sources bring value and environmental benefits. Buildings’ demand for heating and cooling—a largely unrecognized energy hog—offers another important avenue. The use of energy for heating water and both heating and cooling … quantifying the technical and economic potential of renewable thermal while investigating market mechanisms that can streamline investments. (FORTT is based at the Yale Center for …
… Royal DSM executives highlighted internal carbon pricing as an important financial tool for driving business growth in the first of a new webinar series organized by the Carbon … a price on carbon. Moreover, 90 NDCs referenced carbon pricing initiatives or related market-based mechanisms. With global operations, the Dutch-headquartered company has … rates. Sijbesma cautioned that the level of the price needs to be “realistic—not too low, otherwise it doesn't have impact; and not too free-trade, otherwise it becomes a toy for the …
… In 2007, Peter Boyd found himself with Richard Branson and a group of CEOs at Virgin informally discussing global issues that entrepreneurs ought to tackle. Climate change arose … it,” said Boyd of his work history. This habit, it seems, started after he graduated from Oxford University and set out westward—the U.S., Cook Islands, Australia, Singapore, the … Railroad. He circumscribed the world over the course of a year. Most recently, in another promising departure, he reduced his advisory role at The B Team to focus on his …
… The Yale Center for Business and the Environment, along with the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, welcomes Helle Gronli as a newly hired associate research … its goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 80 percent below 2001 levels by 2050. Before starting at Yale this September, Gronli worked at Enova, a Norwegian company that …
… Obama’s Green Jobs plan was centred on the fact that it promised two things: (1) support for the fledgling green sector of the economy; and (2) a source of relatively high-paying … of numerous jobs, which fall into the latter category. Before touting the success of the markets or attributing these outcomes to the acts of agents such as governments, businesses, … current staff, which in certain cases was now facing almost ten times as many projects in a calendar year as they had in the year preceding the Solarize campaign in their town. This …
… Yale’s Feasibility of Renewable Thermal Technology initiative (FORTT), which is developing financial models and strategies to advance renewable thermal … deep engineering knowledge to the effort. In addition, with these partners signed on, all market participants needed to develop renewable thermal financial incentives are now … to create a much better product,” said Patrick McDonnell, the senior director of conservation and load management at UI. “This effort is giving us insights into new …
… Towards Science Communications with Impact course taught by Paul Lussier at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies culminated in a trip to Paris where we presented our … part of the course, students were paired with a client to work on a specific project. Three other students from across the university (Yale College, Yale FES and Yale SOM) and myself were excited to work with WBCSD to develop a digital platform that would help businesses use applied science to address their toughest sustainability …
… title of his class, “Towards Science Communications with Impact: Environmental Engagement for a Changing World.” The posted syllabus included works from Mike Hulme’s Why We Disagree … has had a colorful and impressive career, ranging from roles as Executive Director/Writer for Time-Warner Television, Discovery Channel, National Geographic, HBO, etc. to founding … impact than rational scientific data, such as a two degree global warming of the Earth. For the first time as a student, I saw how my undergraduate degree in psychology, my MBA at …