… entrepreneurs, investors, and policymakers. The process will be student-driven, with advice and guidance from CBEY staff. The research will lead to a series of blog posts and white … November and December. Issue Summary The route to mitigation goes through innovation. The world’s leading climate authority, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), …
… landscape by analyzing a wide variety of technologies. The process will be student-driven, with advice and guidance from CBEY staff. The research will lead to a framework that can help shape … around climate tech. Issue Summary The route to mitigation goes through innovation. The world’s leading climate authority, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), …
… overlaid maps of all 15 feeders on census block group maps to identify the block groups serviced by each feeder. These 15 grid congested area feeders cover 94 unique block groups … are considered as our control block groups. We then matched these block groups with the 2018 Block-Group Level Planning Database . 1 This database is produced by the U.S. … indicates that being a grid-congested block group is very weakly negatively associated with median household income. The fact that the correlation coefficient is very close to …
… “We need to refine the technology, make it easier on the customer to make an informed choice, demonstrate and model a compelling business case and ensure that everyone, regardless … and business owners the cost savings and reduced greenhouse gas impacts associated with the installation of renewable heating and cooling systems. Primary applicant: Clean … technologies in affordable residential buildings and ensure the financial and environmental benefits of RTTs to flow to low-income communities. Primary applicant: Texas Energy Policy …
… the Environment (CBEY) opened its new certificate in Financing and Deploying Clean Energy. With a cohort of 75 online learners from 10 countries, the year-long program is designed for … Finance, Brad Gentry, the newly appointed Frederick K. Weyerhaeuser Professor in the Practice of Forest Resources Management and Policy and Ron Smith, Damon Wells Professor at Yale … for disciplines other than their own. We want to foster collaboration to address the world’s most complex problems.” The curriculum was built by faculty from CBEY's two home …
… The popularity of solar energy skyrocketed in South Carolina (SC) with the introduction of net metering in 2014 when the state legislature unanimously passed … solar installations. Even though SmartPower tried to address this issue, the patchwork service territories create particular challenges, as customers at outreach events often get … pointing out that consumers had been paying extra fees for years and would never see the benefits of the $4.9 billion already spent. This constant background talk, besides eroding …
… a broader range of environmental topics. According to its vision statement, “SOCAP started with a small group of investors determined to prove that doing good has two bottom lines: … leaders who believe in an inclusive and socially responsible economy [that can] address the world’s toughest challenges.” The upcoming annual flagship event in San Francisco on Oct. … reality is that when you have a deep social issue, you have an environmental issue – and vice versa. It is difficult to think about societal change when we don’t think strategically …
… Conservation Pay for Performance (PFP) Bonds, also known as Pay for Success Bonds or Social Benefit Bonds, have been gaining significant traction during the past several years as a way to entice private capital to help address challenging social problems. There have been eight PFP deals in the United States so far – with $80 million invested. To date, these financial instruments have focused on social …
… they were co-leaders of the student group Fossil Free Yale, which pressures Yale to withdraw its investments from the fossil fuel industry. Yale is a large and influential investor, with a $29 billion endowment. If it changes its investment practices, it spurs a tangible and immediate impact, which isn’t the case for most individual … investing. They wanted their findings to be relevant and actionable outside of the academic world, so they decided to publicly rate mutual funds, based on sustainability. In doing so, …
… the webinar series Carbon Pricing: Gaining a Competitive Edge in a Climate-Constrained World to discuss its experience as one of the country’s first banks with an internal carbon price. This price helps drive the bank’s strong and growing renewable energy portfolio. Given …