… Two promising start-ups each received $10,000 from this year’s Sobotka Seed Stage Venture Grant , disbursed annually by the Yale Center for Business and the Environment to provide funding and mentorship to new eco-ventures. The … Kitchen Table is expected to produce its first run of 500 meals by early January. From an environmentalperspective, the benefits of plant-based meals are tremendous: according to …
… On November 2, 2016, the webinar series “Internal Carbon Pricing: Practical Experiences from the Private Sector” featured a conversation on Yale University’s carbon charge . Yale … A case study on the carbon charge is being developed by the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and will be published on the SESYNC Case Study Collection in January … Carbon Charge … Dec 05, 2016 Yale’s Internal Carbon Charge Anja Nikolova (Master of Environmental Management '17) Thuy Phung (Master of Environmental Management '18) On …
… Seed Stage Venture grants who share their experience and perspective. The Yale Center for Business and the Environment aspires to build a robust entrepreneurial community around … grow on mined lands with low-cost organic inputs, and subsequently received a $12,000 grant from Patagonia to support the purchase of agriculture equipment. Since then, Appalachian … Stage Venture Grant Success Stories. 2596 Thriving Food Systems and Nature Based Solutions Environmental Innovation Sustainable Finance and ESG Circularity Equity and Justice Sobotka …
… though, is only one part of the energy system where renewable sources bring value and environmental benefits. Buildings’ demand for heating and cooling—a largely unrecognized … well recognized in Europe. Shortly before Brexit, the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change analyzed leaders in the market—Austria, Denmark and Germany, where renewable energy … many policy mechanisms, financing products and communication campaigns that can be borrowed from the renewable energy world to raise awareness about RTTs and their potential. …
… price, like removing fossil fuel subsidies or offering tax credits for renewable energy, changes the accounting. By including the true cost, or at least a portion of it, in … Sijbesma. The carbon price allows DSM to determine which investments make financial and environmental sense, according to CFO Geraldine Matchett. It also helps to create a “common … adoption, with over 40 national and 20 sub-national jurisdictions—representing 13% of global emissions—putting a price on carbon. Moreover, 90 NDCs referenced carbon pricing …
… an entire new generation of climate activists. This was my first encounter with climate change and the dire consequences it brings. This emotional experience would steer me to seek … that business was willing or able to consider much beyond profit. Today, as a Master in Environmental Management graduate from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental … more clearly and work together to achieve material progress. --Companies are truly global and many are successfully achieving transparency in the supply chain. But bringing …
… Boyd found himself with Richard Branson and a group of CEOs at Virgin informally discussing global issues that entrepreneurs ought to tackle. Climate change arose repeatedly. “We all thought it was something that we should be getting hold of … Virgin Mobile South Africa. So after a solid decade working at Virgin, and with no direct environmental experience, Boyd embraced a new career: Launch Director and Chief Operating …
… The Yale Center for Business and the Environment, along with the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, welcomes Helle Gronli as a newly hired associate research scientist. … and designed support for new projects; her experience also spanned a full range of scales—from the installation of individual residential heat-pumps to the development of large-scale … like getting a bank account and a Connecticut driver’s license. But there are cultural changes too, of course. What New Haven lacks in cross country skiing, it hopefully makes up …
… those who will.” The gap between his personal experience—the imprisonment that inspired his business—and those on the other side of the table only compounded the challenge; he had to … solution. As an African-American, he also looked different than everyone in the room and, from this, learned to overcome bias, whether explicit or not, with numbers. “Let your numbers talk for you,” he advised. Hutson found six backers and, from there, began to build his team, learning how to be a CEO as he went. “I’ve come to …
… Investing Group and sponsored by Commonfund, featured the work of student MBA teams from around the world who developed an environmental, social, and governance-focused (ESG) investment product for university … piece of the puzzle. He suggested that the real motivating challenge at hand is to “connect global capital markets to the business of moving society forward.” According to Streur, we …