… Years ago at an intellectual property law conference in Washington, D.C., then-Senator Orrin … many groups of professionals—become convinced that the arcane issues they grapple with are the only truly relevant ones. I certainly fell into this trap: with clean energy, what … I’d learn at least as much from other members of the cohort as I would from the formal course materials. At the first of the live sessions in the Clean Energy Policy course (which …
… A little over a year ago I was introduced to a few co-workers outside my department who I never had much of an … desire in being “agents of change” within the energy business. Up until that point in my career I had spent most of my time in the field in support of EPC projects. I was comfortable … that piqued my interest. I knew that I had substantial knowledge gaps in the mechanics of our business, and they were a hurdle that I couldn’t research or network my way over. With …
… I’m a current (2021-2022) FDCE cohort student, and I want to be completely honest with you about the program, because I remember … I was purely interested in the second half of the program: the 16 weeks of applicable coursework on energy project financing. And I just wanted to know: is the financing half of … questions that I’d never even considered: How would I be proud to spend most of my time? Are my desired successes “toast-able”, or tangible? And am I spending too much time focusing …
… In our first week of orientation of the Financing and Deploying Clean Energy program, Yale lecturer Peter Boyd posed the seemingly simple question “Why are you here?” This got me to thinking, what had gotten me to this program, to this place? … by March 13, 2022. Photo credit: North Park Village Nature Center Park 7991 Clean Energy Sustainable Finance and ESG Nature, Community, and Energy – Why I wanted to join the FDCE …
… The Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY) is looking for a team of students (2-3) to participate in an independent study (equivalent to a full-credit course: 3 credits YSE/4 unitsSOM) on scaling up a circular solution for used and returned … In the statement, please list any relevant experience you may have and why you are interested in this opportunity and how it will benefit your professional …
… My name is Urvi Talaty and I work as the Environmental Innovation Fellow at Yale. I’m always on the … for new models of innovation within existing organizations or emerging startups that are changing the world. During my week at COP26, I wanted to investigate what was happening … the list of events at the Nature+ Pavilion, one immediately caught my eye. The World Resources Institute’s Land & Carbon Lab was developing a first-of-its-kind monitoring system …
… On Day 2, as I continued my foray into searching for innovation, strains of the previous day’s theme of … words, “What we have done very well is investing in products that have revolutionized our lives. What we haven’t done very well is ensure that those products don’t cause harm. We as a society are excellent at solving problems and we are terrible at defining what problems to solve.” …
… innovative action driven by ambition. And throughout Day 3 of my time at COP26, I heard stories that made me ponder the role of ambition in innovation. At the Japanese pavilion, I … adaptation and system resilience.’ Speakers on the panel talked about the inadequate share of climate finance that countries most vulnerable to climate change are able to access. … inspiration she was to a generation of folks committed to fighting the climate crisis. Of course, newsspreads fast, and on my fairly long sprint to the pavilions, several others had …
… It’s all good to talk about finding new ways to innovate and new models for putting ideas into … to a system. Within regenerative innovation, the focus is on how we think of and understand ourselves as part of a complex system. In a series of slides, Ms. Milan talked about the … my very first semester as an MEM student at then-FES. Ms. Milan talked about how businessesare protective of the way they have always done things, even when they don’t always add …
… Decarbonization and a net zero future will require transformative leaps in clean energy investment and innovation, according to a recent report by … for policy changes, including aat COP26. The event drew me in with its title – “Innovating Our Way to Net-Zero: How Startups Can Solve the Climate Crisis.” Being the Environmental … in that utility companies don’t really compete with each other in their service delivery areas, which means that there is an incentive to work together. The more utility companies …