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Sustainable Finance & ESG

We are unpacking and addressing the challenges of integrating human and environmental sustainability concerns into financial markets.

Through our applied research and multidimensional collaborations, we’re engaging with the prominent question of how our financial system accounts for (and protects) the numerous services provided to us by our environment.

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Programs and Research

Yale Initiative on Sustainable Finance

The Yale Initiative on Sustainable Finance (YISF) aims to produce fresh thinking and cutting-edge research on the challenges of integrating sustainability concerns into financial markets and investment decisions.

YISF functions as a knowledge hub and provides space for intellectual exchange among scholars, practitioners, and policymakers.

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Defining ESG

ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) refers to the criteria that investors use to assess risks and opportunities relating to a company’s environmental impact, social responsibility, and corporate governance.

As part of our Beyond the Buzzwords initiative with Tsai CITY, Yale lecturer and CBEY faculty co-director Todd Cort helps explain this term.

ESG on Beyond the Buzzwords

Also, check out this video where he talks about the challenges of ESG reporting.

Related Reports

Mentorship Opportunities

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CBEY staff, Fellows and Visiting Mentors are available for office hours or one-on-one coaching sessions about your career path, innovative idea, coursework, and beyond.

Reach out and connect with them!

Alumni Visiting Mentors

Senior Lecturer in Sustainability at Yale School of Management
Faculty Co-Director at Yale Center for Business and the Environment
Philanthropic and Impact Investing Advisor at Connie Family Foundation
Lecturer in the Practice of Management at Yale School of Management
Resident Fellow at Yale Center for Business and the Environment
MBA 1997
Master of Environmental Management 1997
Associate Director of Incentive Programs at Connecticut Green Bank
FDCE 2020
Managing Director at Palladium Equity Partners
MBA 2004

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Sustainable Finance & ESG Events

Connect with like-minded individuals

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Director of Sustainable Product & Portfolio at 3M
MBA 2015
Master of Environmental Management 2015
ESG Researcher at MSCI Inc
Master of Environmental Management 2021
Manager, ESG and Decarbonization at Deloitte & Touche LLP
MBA 2017
Master of Environmental Management 2017
Senior Director at EY
MBA 2018
Master of Environmental Management 2018

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