… Featuring Pavan Sukhdev (2011 McCluskey Fellow at FES, Former Head of UNEP’s Green Economy Initiative), Yvon Chouinard (Founder of Patagonia), and Vincent Stanley (Writer and editor for Patagonia) The Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies will host a public event to launch the new book …
… 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 …
… responsible production and consumption of clothing is critical and carries a huge potential for impact. Yael Aflalo founded the fashion brand Reformation with the idea that fashion can be different. Reformation thinks about all the costs in creating fashion and each product is tagged with its …
… 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 …
… Join the Yale Center for Business and the Environment for an engaging discussion on sustainability metrics with … critical for capital to flow into high-priority climate sensitive sectors. Our proposed research is a step in this direction. A group of researchers at Yale have partnered with the Emerging Energy and Environment Investment Group …
… people of color, poor people, and indigenous people in key situations. One needs only to recall how Hurricane Maria left so many US citizens in Puerto Rico without power for nearly a year. How can we rethink our current energy system to enable reliable, locally … Commissioner of Connecticut’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. His recent research looks to sub-national actors (states, cities, companies, and institutions) who are …
… Join us for our first session as we hear from students about their summer internships at the … bikeshare, micro transit, etc.) to address the first-last mile problem? She was specifically looking at this question in the realm of the two commuter rails operated by the MTA, … involved coordinating e-waste and recycling policies across member companies and conducting research on e-waste to inform company strategies. Alli worked on coordinating data …
… and sustainability consulting services to private- and public-sector enterprises for more than three decades, with a focus on developing and implementing corporate-wide … makes the world a safer place by enabling fast bacteria detection. As a part of her PhD research in Prof. Mark Reed’s lab she has been working for the last five years on detection … out of over 900 projects and 7000 participants), CIMIT award for Primary Care and Sobotka Research Awards at Yale. Prior to joining Yale, Monika received a Master’s in Physics from …
… products and solutions that address urgent environmental and social challenges? Join us for a student-initiated "Blockchain for Sustainable Solutions" conference that brings together students and blockchain … will explore how the technology can be harnessed to address issues like climate change, deforestation, and humanitarian crises. Speakers will discuss emerging applications for …
… from CBEY 2:05 - 2:30 pm: A Randomized Controlled Trial based Evaluation of a Payment-for-Ecosystem Service Initiative in the Brazilian Amazon Mushfiq Mobarak / Desiree Lopes … pm: Cocktail Reception Now in its fifth year, through the generous support of the Sobotka Research Fund and the F.K. Weyerhaeuser Memorial Fund, the Yale Center for Business and the … are to enable students and faculty to work together and develop comprehensive and scientifically rigorous research projects that can be published in relevant academic journals, books, …