… Conservation Finance Network: Where Conservation Meets Capital More and more, the … community is recognizing that traditional funding models can’t keep pace with the need forconservation capital. At a time of modest public funding and limited philanthropic … need. About Conservation Finance Network The Conservation Finance Network (CFN) advances land and resource conservation by expanding the use of innovative and effective funding and …
… The Clean Energy Finance Forum advances the understanding and growth of energy efficiency finance and renewable … which includes original feature articles on growing trends in the renewable sector, the Forum offers free webinars, conversations with experts in the field and breaking reports on the most important developments in energy efficiency and solar finance. The forum also trains graduate students to become experts in efficiency finance and solar …
… In partnership with Patagonia and the Yale Center for Business and the Environment, we have published An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Certified B … Corporation You’re Past Debating: Tell Me How the Process Works The Unchartered Legal Landscape of the Benefit Corporation Additional resources Corporate Sustainability … Fast Company : " Should Your Company Be A Benefit Corporation, A B Corp, Or What? " - March 2017 Areas of Focus Corporate Sustainability Environmental Innovation Sustainable Finance …
… The Renewable Thermal Alliance’s challenge is straightforward: to develop the infrastructure for large-scale deployment of renewable … and 24 percent of energy delivered to residential and commercial customers in 2015 (EIA AEO 2017), is predominantly based on fossil fuels and is hence a high-impact area. Based on the … Renewable Thermal Strategy New York – Roadmap for Renewable Heating and Cooling Rhode Island – Rhode Island – Rhode Island Renewable Thermal Market Development Strategies …
… schools, conducted by Yale University in collaboration with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and the Global Network for Advanced Management, finds that: Corporations unwilling to act on environmental issues … would like to recruit. 44 percent of students are willing to accept a lower salary to work for a company with better environmental practices. Conversely, about one-fifth of …
… This prize provides seed funding for start-up ventures in the field of business and the environment. The goal of the funding … of impact, as long as there is potential for impact and the idea is viable. 1 We looked at three frameworks to identify these key areas of impact and action. Project Drawdown’s … (2020) Cambium Carbon (2019) Floe (2019) Hand Me Up (2018) GreenGear (2018) DroneFlow (2017) Real Impact Tracker (2017) Bike City (2016) Kitchen Table/Zoni Foods (2016) …
… gain from healthy and functioning ecosystems are vast. Clean drinking water filtered by forests, carbon stored in plants or soil, crop pollination by wild insects, and … opportunity to both protect these assets and bring their worth into the market. Currently, conservationists and investors alike are moving into this space in hopes of achieving a … An array of public and private mechanisms exist to use payments to encourage responsible land management that preserves public benefits. So, what do ecosystem services projects look …
… Program Overview Developed in collaboration between The Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY) and the Yale Center for Environmental Justice (YCEJ), the Clean and Equitable Energy Development (CEED) … networks, and connections–and take tangible action–to rethink and develop clean, affordable, and equitable energy systems. Find out all the details about this program HERE . …
… In 2014, the four largest palm oil trading companies signed an agreement to end deforestation, development of peat lands and exploitation of locals not only with their own operations, but also from all of … were vertically integrated (they own about 15% of the oil palm land in Indonesia and three own their own consumer brands of palm oil), they had vast influence on growers. If …
… most heavily traded edible oil in the world. Golden Agri Resources (GAR) has been in the forefront of this palm oil boom in Indonesia. Founded in 1996 by the influential Widjaja … oil value chain, from growing seedlings and managing over 450,000 hectares of plantation lands to running extraction and refining mills and marketing its own brand of cooking oil. … oil companies. On one hand some were resistant to letting plantations set aside landforconservation, since they wanted to maximize opportunities for small farmers. On the other …