… The Clean Energy Finance Forum advances the understanding and growth of energy efficiency finance and renewable energy finance markets in the United States by providing … which includes original feature articles on growing trends in the renewable sector, the Forum offers free webinars, conversations with experts in the field and breaking reports on …
… Watch the full recording here! Please join the Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY) for the 2015-2016 season of Nature’s Returns: Investing in Ecosystem Services. In this … Weary of NatureVest will join us to speak about the recently completed Seychelles Debt-for-Nature Swap deal. The Republic of Seychelles, a nation of 115 islands in the Western …
… The CBEY Skills for Sustainable Innovation Workshop series welcomes Max Elder, Research Director for the Food Futures Lab at the Institute for the Future, for a hands-on workshop on futures thinking and forecasting methodologies. …
… While agroforestry systems may be a promising climate & biodiversity solution, there are major hurdles to expanding agroforestry practices to the scale we need. For a whole slew of reasons, commercial profitability can be a challenge during the early …
… community is recognizing that traditional funding models can’t keep pace with the need for conservation capital. At a time of modest public funding and limited philanthropic … and nonprofit professionals through practitioner convenings, intensive trainings, and information dissemination to increase the financial resources deployed for conservation. Our … We worked for many years out of The Conservation Fund, a top-ranked organization forefficiency and effectiveness that works to achieve environmental and economic outcomes. …
… 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 …
… and sustainability consulting services to private- and public-sector enterprises for more than three decades, with a focus on developing and implementing corporate-wide … as well as broad based climate and water programs. Sarni’s diverse client list includes Fortune 500 companies, multinational corporations and non- governmental organizations … also a key team member on the development of the Best Global Green Brands sustainability performance methodology highlighting the value of sustainability in creating brand value. An …
… gain from healthy and functioning ecosystems are vast. Clean drinking water filtered by forests, carbon stored in plants or soil, crop pollination by wild insects, and … pharmaceutical uses of plants are just a few examples of services humans usually receive for free. A recent wave of efforts to monetize the value of ecosystem services presents an opportunity to both protect …
… In recent years, energy efficiency financing strategies have gained prominence in a number of leading … an increased reliance on financing programs as a primary program strategy. Please join us for a webinar on a recent report from the State and Local Energy Efficiency Action Network, … Financing Programs Funded by Utility Customers . The webinar will cover: Regulatory context for financing programs Adapting traditional energy efficiency regulatory planning, …
… 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 …