… in Health Care Symposium Health systems around the world are turning their attention to greenhouse gas mitigation and resilience. Globally, health care is responsible for nearly 5% of total global greenhouse gas emissions. Nationally, US health care is responsible for 8.5% of US greenhouse gas emissions and similar fractions of toxic air emissions. …
… 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 catastrophic effects on human … infrastructure, energy, agriculture, fisheries, sea levels, natural ecosystems, and more. For many, the consequences have felt distant and theoretical — until now. Unprecedented …
… Sustainable Fashion at Yale, YSE's fashion and beauty student interest group is committed to the sustainable future of these industries. With events and … on clothing and packaging waste mitigation to events on current policy, the group aims to inform students while also preparing them for the budding careers in this space. This year we look forward to partnering with CBEY to …
… Reception: The Yale Clean Energy Conference is thrilled to be partnering with ClimateHaven for this year’s reception. ClimateHaven will officially launch on November 9th, and is a non-profit innovation hub created to empower climate tech entrepreneurs in their efforts to develop innovative technologies that will enable their companies to scale and drive significant changes for our planet. Special Keynote: Creator of Volts, a podcast and newsletter about clean …
… The Yale Center for Business and the Environment and Yale School of Management are delighted to co-host guest speakers to discuss the operations behind the development of green energy infrastructure in the US. Featuring some of our favorite Yale alumni doing remarkable work in clean energy (Jamie Carlson from SoftBank and Adrian Deveny – Formerly of Senator Schumer’s office). The panelists will discuss the first grid scale …
… 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 … business students state that they would accept a lower salary to work with a sustainability-forward employer. Our students will soon be at the helms of such impactful organizations, …
… new book, The Future of the Responsible Company . Written with Yvon Chouinard, founder and former owner of Patagonia. This book draws on 50 years of experience at Patagonia to … chaos. The authors describe the current impact of manufacturing, commerce, and traditional capitalism on the planet’s natural systems and human communities, and how that impact is forcing business to change its ways. The Future of the Responsible Company shows companies …
… Join us for a conversation with Carol Lobel , Senior Director at Closed Loop Partners’ Center for the Circular Economy. She previously worked at Procter and Gamble and also helped found and scale Loop by TerraCycle, a first-of-its-kind global platform for reuse. Carol will talk about her career journey, what she loves about the work she …
… Trimex’s Sustainability and Social Responsibility Manager, Mar Gutierrez (MEM ‘16) for a conversation on wheat growing practices in a diversity of lands and business models. … 4th generation family farm in Montana in the1980’s; a journey in organic farming and care for community that has had a big impact in the industry. Mark Bomford Director of the Yale … and Corporate Social Responsibility at Grupo Trimex Master of Environmental Management 2016 … Join Montana Organic Wheat and Kamut Farmer Bob Quinn, author of Grain by Grain …
… 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 … would like to recruit. 44 percent of students are willing to accept a lower salary to work for a company with better environmental practices. Conversely, about one-fifth of …