… The Importance of Natural Infrastructure: Building and Financing our Urban Future Alumni - we welcome your participation in a Master Class in New York regarding natural infrastructure. Brad … filtered water, stress relief and sense of community are just a few ways people benefit from this area of ecosystem services. In fact, healthy forests in the Catskills provide New …
… To help celebrate our 10th anniversary, the Yale Center for Business and the Environment invites you to a … interactive panel discussions followed by a networking reception with a stunning view from Google's San Francisco office. Schedule of Events: 4:00 to 4:20 - Welcome and … for residents, communities, corporations, cities, regions, and countries. Through courses, conferences and events, Yale convenes academics and practitioners from business, …
… was placed under increased scrutiny. In addition to being used as a cooking oil, it is in our cookies, our shampoos, and is used as a biofuel. As a versatile plant with efficient, high yields, oil palm, and the oil derived from it has become a multibillion-dollar ($44 billion in 2013 according to Bloomberg ) … other vegetable oils, production pressures have led to undeniable environmental and social impacts on both global and local scales. The most notable of those impacts stem from …
… Introduction and purpose The urgent need for sustainable management of environmental resources is gaining traction among the general public, the private sector, and government … yet to reach their potential is the lack of a cohesive narrative connecting the information from the accounts to the needs of decision makers, and to the public discourse on the economy. The difficulty of navigating the natural capital accounting landscape …
… Finance and ESG Equity and Justice Bridging the Gap: How Philanthropy Can Unlock Impact Investing … Bridging the Gap: How Philanthropy Can Unlock Impact Investing … holds great potential where philanthropy falls short—mobilizing the scale of financial resources needed to address the world’s pressing problems. According to the Global Impact … Investing Network (GIIN) total global impact investing assets in 2018 grew more than 50% from 2017. Yet, that growth is tiny relative to the overall investing marketplace—comprising …
… partnerships with transformational engagement. The focus will be on significant resource mobilization for priority, high impact and urgent conservation and transformational, sustainable projects across Asia and … conservation objectives. WWF offices in Asia Pacific have doubled the level of funding from priority segments through investments in growth, collaboration, and capacity building, …
… Based Solutions Clean Energy Sustainable Finance and ESG Maximizing Land Use Benefits From Utility-Scale Solar … Maximizing Land Use Benefits From Utility-Scale Solar Katie … associated with land devoted to conventional solar, pollinator-friendly solar, and farming. Our analysis reveals that pollinator-friendly solar may generate private benefits to solar … support studies that are underway with a goal of providing more detail on the localized impacts of this practice. Research is needed to better understand the panel efficiency gains …
… investments. The first in this mini-series will feature a talk on Bright Spots for Resource Mobilization: Regional Trusts by Willy Kostka of the Micronesia Conservation Trust and … detail how countries within their respective regions have capitalized on their natural resources to generate revenue for the trust funds. Interested in reading more before our webinar? Check out this publication on “ Island Bright Spots in Conservation & …
… quality than traditional (non-green) alternatives. In short, this effect appears to result from consumers’ reliance upon a “zero-sum” heuristic, whereby they assume that companies have a fixed amount of manufacturing resources. Thus, resources devoted to “making the product green” come at the expense of making the product …
… timber extraction, etc.) that can ensure permanent conservation value? How can sustainably-sourced forest products find markets in their country of origin and not be dependent on … of ecosystem service valuation and investment. The benefits that human populations gain from healthy and functioning ecosystems are vast. Clean drinking water filtered by forests, … their worth onto the market. Public and private mechanisms exist to use payments to encourage responsible land management in order to preserve public benefits. Currently, …