… to use both the travel cost method and the contingent valuation method to estimate Southern New England residents’ willingness to pay (WTP) a premium for local forest products, clean drinking water from forested watersheds, and access to recreation on private forestland. A survey was administered by …
… to climate change, the science is unequivocal: global temperatures will continue to rise for decades, largely due to greenhouse gases produced by human activities. This will have … Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, the Renewable Energy 100 (RE100), the Business Roundtable, B Corps, and benefit … Our goals are to: inspire companies to learn best practices from their peers on the path to ‘net zero,’ provide a publicly available data source and collection of insights for …
… global warming in the absence of immediate action. The U.S. signed—and then left, before rejoining—the Paris Agreement. In this survey of 2,035 global business students, conducted in partnership with the Global Network for Advanced Management and the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication , our key … Sustainability, February 2022. Yale University and Global Network for Advanced Management. New Haven, CT: Yale Center for Business and the Environment, Yale Program on Climate Change …
… Rates of mental health concerns for children and adolescents are high across the United States and potentially rising as, simultaneously, young people are spending less time outdoors than ever before. These trends are especially pronounced for children of color and low-income urban … for America’s youth aimed at bringing the mental health benefits of the outdoors to new, diverse audiences, who may need it now more than ever. Published October 2020 7584 …
… evidence on how best to leverage social network relationships to improve dissemination of new technologies. Here, the investigator marketed two different agricultural technologies: … moisture retention. The project was designed in two phases to test different methods of information diffusion. In the first phase, a baseline survey was conducted with 3800 farming … characteristics of the households as well as their farming practices and production levels. For the first round of interventions, information was provided to treatment households on …
… Five Yale students designed an off-grid renewable energy system for a meat processing plant in Montana. The plant’s nonprofit owner … in renewable energy to design and implement personalized renewable energy systems and perform diligence for specific jurisdictions. The off-grid model presented here is replicable …
… are uniquely positioned to support the local soil health work of farmers and ranchers. In California, Colorado, and New Mexico, state policy has established programs to support agricultural producers …
… schools, conducted by Yale University in collaboration with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and the Global Network for Advanced Management, finds that: Corporations unwilling to act on environmental issues … stance, noting that environmental protection will improve economic growth and provide new jobs. To cite this report, use: Cort, C.; Franceschini, L.; Wang, J. (2015). Rising …
… benefits farmers, solar developers, rural communities, and the earth itself. This emerging form of renewable energy blends complementary land uses and eliminates the false “food or energy” … traditionally dominated discussions about solar-agricultural land use. People often feel forced to choose between fuel or farming, climate or conservation, energy or rural …
… and Nature Based Solutions Clean Energy Sustainable Finance and ESG Mobilizing Finance for Land Conservation at the Energy-Land-Agriculture Nexus … Mobilizing Finance for Land Conservation at the Energy-Land-Agriculture Nexus Whitney Mann (Master of … solar has a sizable land footprint — one that is only expected to grow as solar and renewables meet a larger share of U.S. energy needs. Given the climate imperative to …