… to open the door to meaningful action to combat climate change. Now, post-COP21, one of our major tasks will be to redirect capital toward climate mitigation and environmental … Second, the current set of metrics is predominantly ‘backward-looking’ and focused on impacts (risks and associated costs) rather than opportunity (and associated revenue). If we are ever to get to scale in moving capital toward greener investments, we will need to establish these metrics, …
… Pitching and Presenting your Venture Your success in engaging and persuading audiences depends on the design of your pitch and your delivery of the presentation. In this interactive workshop with William …
… Leave your mark! We invite students across Yale to share new ideas for shaping our future research, programs and events at our: 5th Annual Future Directions in Business and the Environment Pitch Competition This …
… Leave your mark! We invite students across Yale to share new ideas for shaping our future research, programs and events at our: 6th Annual Future Directions in Business and the Environment Pitch Competition This …
… Leave your mark! We invite students across Yale to share new ideas for shaping our future research, programs and events at our: 7th Annual Future Directions in Business and the Environment Pitch Competition This …
… Leave your mark! We invite students across Yale to share new ideas for shaping our future research, programs, and events at our: 8th Annual Future Directions in Business and the Environment Pitch Competition (aka, …
… Watch the full recording here! Urban trees and forests are often overlooked in our fight against climate change and yet they cumulatively represent a significant carbon … canopy crisis. City Forest Credits has demonstrated the viability of carbon credits and impact certification as financing mechanisms for urban tree canopy -- and is rapidly bringing these mechanisms to scale across the U.S. We will explore why the urban landscape has posed such a financing …
… Our current energy system does not distribute power equally. Just as power generation has been centralized in our energy system, power and influence have been centralized in our political system. This … of power and control, but in service of humanity to those most vulnerable? Hear from Revolutionary Power: An Activist's Guide to the Energy Transition author Shalanda Baker as …
… in business strategy and public policy. However, when we try to have a conversation about our ideas, someone has branded us as a “holier than thou” jerk, or we have refrained from … various pitfalls of sustainability, or recurring conversations in the sustainability discourse that correlate with the experience of being stuck. It explores why we get stuck in pitfalls and how we can escape them. It points out how advocates for the “flourishing of human and other life forever” undermine that flourishing in the way we engage …
… Now in its fourth year, the Yale Center for Business and the Environment is coming together with the … workshops to discuss how finance, policy, communication and technology can be leveraged to scale up collaborative approaches to practical action. … sessions to identify emerging tools and approaches to address the barriers to scaling up impact, including finance, communications, policy and technology Click HERE to see the …