… Ecosystem Services". Featured presenter Katherine Hamilton '06 M.E.M , Managing Director at Forest Trends' Ecosystem Marketplace, will provide a primer on Ecosystem Services before taking questions from the audience. The Center for Business and the Environment at Yale (CBEY) is pleased to announce a special series of …
… course, this Yale master class invites you to explore the business and policy logic for making the environment and sustainability a core element of corporate management and … is already providing multiple corporate benefits, ranging from cost savings and enhanced profits to resource availability, thereby gaining an advantageous position in an industry's evolving structure. She will focus on a cooperative business strategy for resource sharing, industrial symbiosis, and the economic, environmental and community …
… reference to use with solar and wind. His presentation will discuss metrics commonly used for assessing the costs of energy storage, their advantages and disadvantages. The … cycle per day Wind: one full charge/discharge cycle every two days The sources of ‘value’ for an energy storage project will be discussed, to illustrate important differences from … energy storage since 2003, with its product, the Ice Bear, creating and storing cooling for commercial, industrial, and residential applications. Each Ice Bear is networked and …
… To help celebrate our 10th anniversary, the Yale Center for Business and the Environment invites you to a unique event in San Francisco ! Alumni, … and Introductory remarks Dr. Indy Burke, Carl W. Knobloch, Jr. Dean of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Stuart DeCew '11 MBA/MEM, Director of the Yale Center for Business and the Environment 4:20 to 5:10pm - Urban Resilience The world is urbanizing …
… Suzette Carty (MEM '04) is currently Senior Manager Environmental Sustainability at Brown-Forman , one of the largest American-owned spirits and wine companies (their brands include Jack Daniels, Old Forester and Finlandia). She is responsible for leading environmental sustainability strategy and program implementation and …
… The Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY) is pleased to continue Nature's Returns: Investing … a webinar series that addresses the growing importance of ecosystem service valuation and investment. In 2014 the program will include mini-series on Domestic Forest Finance, International Ecosystem Services Projects, Universities and Payments for …
… business to step up and make bold changes to help create a better future. A key framework for these necessary changes is becoming “net positive”—in short, courageous companies will … by giving more than they take from our communities and ecosystems. But…what would it take for companies to actually create more environmental and social benefit than harm? What does … as well as lessons learned from other pioneering companies, they share how business can profit from fixing the world’s problems instead of creating them. Join us for a …
… products we buy. However, it is not something that consumers can easily spot or screen for. When, in June 2015, France’s Ecology minister, Segolene Royal, called on her country to … highlighted the hidden role it plays in the global economy. And, as fires set to clear land for palm oil plantations blazed in Indonesia throughout the fall of 2015, covering the … related to palm oil has occurred with companies and individuals setting fire to the landscape. In 2015, fires raged for months in Indonesia, severely impacting Indonesian and …
… and the approaches that TNC and other NGO's are taking in the realm of Ecosystem Service before taking questions from the audience. The Center for Business and the Environment at Yale (CBEY) is pleased to announce a special series of … traditionally difficult to quantify in financial terms. Clean drinking water filtered by forests, carbon stored in plants or soil, crop pollination by wild insects, and …
… Will corporate sustainability play a larger role for businesses seeking to emerge and grow in the post-COVID economy? After the experience of … chronic water shortages, and loss of ecosystem services, should become mainstream concerns for corporate financial planning, and the value of human capital, equality, and community … Lecturer in Sustainability, Yale School of Management; Faculty Co-Director, Yale Center for Business and the Environment Panelists: Marian Chertow, Associate Professor of …