… will add keen expertise and new perspectives in corporate sustainability, forest products, energy justice, entrepreneurship, and clean energy finance—key areas of interest among the center’s students and partners. CBEY’s … and launching innovative financial products to increase the deployment of renewable energy, including the Connecticut C-PACE (Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy) program …
… school bucket list and I was ecstatic when I received the opportunity to attend the climate conference: I spent four fantastic days at the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow. The 2021 United Nations ClimateChange Conference gathered world leaders and countless nonprofits/NGOs, with many believing … the issue on gender and climate. The private sector was highly engaged . There was great energy around the pavilions and side events. Hundreds of business panels were organized and …
… Warner and Darya Watnick worked with dozens of practitioners and other experts in farming, climate adaptation, policymaking, sustainable investment, coalition-building, and related … decision-makers take up questions about sustaining viable societies amid drought, wildfire, climate migration and persistent inequality. Leaders in communities can’t wait for ideal conditions, though, so the guidebook articulates how to change conditions where readers live. The lessons, and the conversational voice that carries …
… Six student teams were recently awarded Climate Innovation Grants by the Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY). CBEY awarded almost $15,000 this year to help further innovative ideas to address climatechange and its environmental and social impacts. The Center has awarded these grants for the … supporting them as their ideas come to fruition!" The 2021 recipients include: Reservation Energy Partnership (REP): REP is on a mission to establish a partnership between the private …
… products. Other Sponsored Waste programs came after, with the Yogurt Cup Brigade and the Energy Bar Wrapper Brigade, sponsored by Stonyfield Farm and Clif Bar, respectively, laying … “incremental improvements” and “pushing the envelope” in ways that “will keep [creating change].” Marian Chertow and Alex Payne both view TerraCycle as a company creating impact … Payne is hesitant to draw an equivalency between TerraCycle’s waste programs and carbon savings, but he does note that TerraCycle provides regular reporting to partners on the …
… New Haven community," says Talaty. Two new members of the CBEY team will focus on clean energy, a key area of impact for the center. Julia Nojeim (MEM ’21) is CBEY’s Clean Energy … across Yale’s clean energy initiatives. This shared forum will seek to facilitate the exchange of ideas and connections through a collaboratively governed and decentralized … across Yale’s clean energy initiatives. This shared forum will seek to facilitate the exchange of ideas and connections through a collaboratively governed and decentralized …
… SPACs, a group of twelve Yale graduate students participated in an independent study with Climate Real Impact Solutions (“ CRIS ”), a serial-issuer of SPACs founded in 2020. CRIS has … of electric vehicles (“ EVs ”). These batteries are especially attractive as a way to store energy due to their energy density and recyclability. With prices having fallen by 87% since … sustainable due to their high use of water resources and contribution to climatechange. Agriculture consumes 70% of global water supply and produces 12% of global …
… ( curated by Dr. Anastasia O’Rourke , Managing Director of Yale’s Carbon Containment Lab ) Climate Tech ( curated by Ben Soltoff , Environmental Innovation Manager at CBEY and … Degirmenci (YC 2021) Check out the site at https://www.beyond-buzzwords.com . 2621 Clean Energy Environmental Innovation Thriving Food Systems and Nature Based Solutions CBEY and … ( curated by Dr. Anastasia O’Rourke , Managing Director of Yale’s Carbon Containment Lab ) Climate Tech ( curated by Ben Soltoff , Environmental Innovation Manager at CBEY and …
… the atmosphere in material production than it releases during manufacturing and shipping.” ClimateChange & COVID-19 These days, Dharia and Heller have been working diligently to scale the … was much bigger than she thought. When she shared her belief in business solutions and climate action with Heller, he eagerly jumped on board. “The vision, which Monika had that I …
… in the quest for circularity. ...and they’re connecting the dots between circularity and climate goals. Soukeyna Gueye, a Project Manager for the Ellen MacArthur Foundation , … all circularity practitioners should be constantly repeating: switching all of our energy to renewables will only get us 55% of the way toward limiting warming to 1.5 degrees … a career in plastic waste reduction, they ask me what happened to my interest in climatechange. The inseparable relationship between waste--especially plastic--and climatechange …