… to address the question of how an organization should design and implement an internal carbon charge. Internal carbon pricing is a powerful tool the private sector can employ to … pricing works to shift the cost of carbon from increased healthcare costs and exacerbated environmental damage to payment at the source of pollution. By doing so, it incentivizes … in the context of contemporary economic literature on this subject. 2717 Sustainable Finance and ESG Internal Carbon Pricing: Policy Framework and Case Studies … Internal Carbon …
… marketing literature on diffusion of technologies has stressed the importance of social networks in technology adoption.This project is designed to provide experimental evidence on … to improve dissemination of new technologies. Here, the investigator marketedtwo different agricultural technologies: 1) Improved Crop Residue Management (CRM), … that the extension agent was supposed to work with. A midline survey was conducted with all participants and focused on farmer receptiveness and retention of information regarding new …
… additional benefits to you if everyone else is using the same product is often called a network effect because as more people are ‘connected’ to the network, the benefits increase. More precisely, anytime there is a way that people are connected—whether it is a physical connection or not—the network effect is defined as the …
… through which companies can lower their environmental footprint and represents an estimated $4.5 trillion dollar additional economic output by 2030. The circular economy moves away … the elimination of waste through the continual use of natural resources. This holistic framework allows companies to evaluate the environmental impact of their products from … by focusing on optimizing natural resource use and minimizing waste. This framework is particularly salient for industries with limited product life cycles. Images of plastic in …
… a new market. What is interesting about renewable energy in general and offshore wind in particular is that, across settings, the issues that prevent market emergence are relatively … and stakeholder groups is that no market is possible until new institutions are created. The question of the factors that allow certain actors—and not others—to create new … approach them. In particular, this project consists of several stages. The first entails a series of in-depth, ethnographic interviews with actors from a diverse set of settings and …
… theory to sustainability. By distinguishing between the problem-oriented minimisation of unsustainability and a possibility of vision-oriented sustainability, it … collection with Patagonia and are scheduled to conduct interviews with our second study participant, Stone Brewery. The quantitative assessment is scheduled to follow the … feedback. The pitfalls and pathways are now being expanded into an online article series in collaboration with the MIT Sloan Initiative for Sustainable Business & Society. …
… the planet. The sixth Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report included unprecedented warnings of catastrophic global warming in the absence of immediate action. The U.S. … Paris Agreement. In this survey of 2,035 global business students, conducted in partnership with the Global Network for Advanced Management and the Yale Program on Climate … are integrating sustainability topics, but students are calling on them to go further. The ‘carbon tax on talent’ continues to rise: Now, the majority of business students state that …
… Energy Poverty Research Institute (TEPRI) analyzed the residential energy consumption and carbon emission by end-use and fuel type. From there, we investigated how much air-source heat pumps and ground-source heat pumps could lower both electricity … and Tam Kemabonta and submitted to the Yale Center for Business and the Environment as part of their work with the Renewable Thermal Alliance. Energy and Emissions Savings …
… to pay (WTP) a premium for local forest products, clean drinking water from forested watersheds, and access to recreation on private forestland. A survey was administered … students to 90 landowners and 692 forest users, and an additional 21 interviews were conducted of key informants, including influential local landowners, as well as forest industry … Use and Applications The results of this research have been useful to students who are a part of ongoing land management and research projects in the Quiet Corner Initiative at the …
… costs to vary over time; and c) a flexible design that allows maintenance costs to be estimated as a function of other characteristics such as wind turbine features and location. As part of this project, the investigators developed two models: 1) the wind turbine (WT) … a wind turbine life cycle impact analysis and to quantify the environmental impacts (e.g., carbon footprint, global warning potential, ozone depletion potential, etc.). Related …