… Yale Climate and Energy Institute on November 12, 2015. Bob Litterman, former head of risk management for Goldman-Sachs, hopes that society will be as lucky as he … in light of global warming. First prize in the competition is $10,000 and a bye to the finals of an event, modeled after the Yale competition, at the January World Economic Forum … winds, and humidity at increasingly finer resolution, but rely on pre-calculated greenhouse gas emissions from IAMs. The two approaches could be hybridized, so that GCM …
… manages conservation-oriented timberland and organic farmland investments at New Island Capital--an impact investment firm based in San Francisco. Patrick Hook (MF/MBA '13) is a decision support manager at Conservation Forestry, a timberland investment management organization based in Exeter, NH. Alumni … for a grant through the Sobotka Collaborative Research Fund? The application for the 2015-2016 Sobotka Research Fund is now live ! Patrick and Spenser provided the following insider …
… Sustainability Summit, you’ll find Conservation Matrix – an innovative crowdfunding platform started by two current joint degree students, Thomas Selby (MEM/MBA ’16) and Sumit Kadakia (MF/MBA ’16). Supported through a grant from the Yale Center for Business and the Environment, Conservation Matrix enables high net worth investors and investment firms to place capital directly into high-quality conservation projects. In short, Conservation Matrix acts …
… new senior director of solar ambassadors, spoke to students from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and the Yale School of Management as part of the GE Colloquium on Sustainability Leadership , a lecture series presented by the Yale Center for Business and the Environment . Frances Beinecke, YC ’71, FES ’74, former president of the Natural Resources Defense Council and McCluskey Fellow at Yale, …
… - Slides Instead of Learning Opportunities, and it’s something you may have experienced before. During lunch time break, several dozen audience members gather in a lecture hall. They … tremendous opportunities for students and visitors to learn from one another, so we created GreenLight to capitalize on those opportunities. GreenLight is a series of interactive, fast-paced …
… The Sabin Stories will introduce you to former winners of the Sabin Sustainable Venture Prize as they share experiences and reflect … Building on the synergies of an undergraduate in computer science and graduate expertise in forest management, Max Nova, YC ‘12 and Zack Parisa, FES '09 started SilviaTerra in 2010 and … is built around a patent-pending technology Zack developed at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies that uses satellites to determine the size and species of …
… Will 2015 prove to be a historic year for climate and sustainability? There is reason to hope, according to Peter Bakker, president and CEO of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. “The spirit of cooperation that has opened up is truly new,” he … SDGs: What’s Driving Business to Act on Climate Change Now? ” presented by the Yale Center for Business and the Environment on September 23. The panel was moderated by Brad Gentry, …
… It has only been a week since the stunning revelation that the Volkswagen group equipped millions of diesel-powered cars with software designed to fool anybody … executive, Martin Winterkorn , resigned. And yet there are reasons to believe that the fallout from this scandal will be as big as Enron , or even bigger. Most corporate scandals … of the latter and cases featuring the US energy company’s massive financial fraud are therefore taught in business schools around the world. Here are seven reasons why the Volkswagen …
… The boy from Sierra Leone was 10 or 11 years old. He was quick to learn, though never formally schooled. William Warshauer (‘86 BA) met and befriended him while a Peace Corps volunteer in a village in the north of the country, and one day it hit him “full force between the eyes” that if their situations had been reversed—if Warshauer had instead … they need—not by providing it directly, but by opening access to finance channels. Finally, TechnoServe works to establish market access, moving farmers up the value chain. …
… The problem, Jenkins says, is that fund managers and fund selectors have no single standard for analyzing or ranking Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors or Socially … The problem, Jenkins says, is that fund managers and fund selectors have no single standard for analyzing or ranking Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors or Socially … The problem, Jenkins says, is that fund managers and fund selectors have no single standard for analyzing or ranking Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors or Socially …