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2021’s Most Pressing (Yet Promising) Waste Challenges

At the beginning of February, I attended GreenBiz 21, GreenBiz’s annual conference about sustainability and business. As someone who’s admittedly fascinated by waste (and agrees ...

Blog

“One of the coolest things I’ve done since undergrad”

Are you considering applying to the Yale program in Financing and Deploying Clean Energy (FDCE) and wondering about what sets it apart? Maybe you’re contemplating ...

Blog

Student-Faculty Collaboration Tracks Corporate Efforts to Curb Greenhouse Gas Emissions

This report, written with SOM Professor Lesley Meng and published recently by the Yale Center for Business and the Environment, examines the varying standards for ...

Yale School of Management

Good Food, Good Jobs: Researching an Economically Equitable Restaurant Model

An ethical food system should promote public and environmental health, a thriving workforce, and nutritious products available to everyone. Put simply, it should provide food ...

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Upright and Ecopackables Win Sobotka Prize

Now in its 10th year, the Sobotka Seed Prize for Sustainable Ventures has awarded $10,000 grants to environmentally-focused startups Upright and Ecopackables. Administered by the ...

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Climate Innovation Grants Demonstrate Passion, Diligence, and Ingenuity of Yale Students

Five student teams were recently awarded Climate Change Innovation Grants by the Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY). CBEY awarded $15,000 this year ...

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Filling the Funnel: Climate-focused Investment Strategies in SPAC Land

The Yale Center for Business and the Environment (“CBEY”) is looking for a team of students to participate in an independent study (equivalent to a ...

Blog

Demanding Upstanding Solar Supply: Two Pioneers Chart Paths to Energy Justice

Look behind the dominant curve, on which solar power becomes cheaper to supply while corporate commitments, voters' priorities and scientific data goose demand for solar ...

Clean Energy Finance Forum

Biden adds 6 policy experts to his climate team

Joe Biden rounds out his White House climate team with policy hands who've spent the Trump era defending climate regulations, engineering new policy and campaigning ...

E&E News

Five Questions about SPACs and Clean Energy with Professor Dan Gross

Dan Gross is a Lecturer at the Yale School of the Environment where he teaches two very popular courses on Renewable Energy Project Finance, both ...

Blog

When Aiming for "Better," Says Expert, It's Best to Focus on Delivering Justice

In a recent discussion with CBEY as part of its Blueprint for Clean Energy webinar series, Dr. Dan Kammen highlighted climate justice as one of ...

Clean Energy Finance Forum

Unsurance: California Homeowners and Utilities Face Off With Fire

Bring in the ethicists, actuaries and silviculturists to figure out how to insure homeowners who buy lots at the edge of wilderness that gets more ...

Clean Energy Finance Forum

What Marketers Can Learn From How SmartPower Has Leveraged Consumer Insight For Growth In The Sustainable Energy Market

How can consumers' views be changed in favor of sustainable products? In this interview, Brian F. Keane, President, SmartPower and Co-Founder and CEO, WeeGreen talks ...

Forbes

Policy Memo: An Environmental Justice Analysis Can Accelerate Carbon Progress in Pennsylvania

The case for joining the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, which Pennsylvania's governor embraced in 2019, asserts that trading carbon credits can marshal market discipline to ...

Clean Energy Finance Forum

Sites and Insights: Sol Systems Grows Before Your Eyes

Krisztina Pjecska’s been advancing on a mission to extend solar energy’s reach, to the point that she and her colleagues at Sol Systems have started ...

Clean Energy Finance Forum

Student innovators recognized on Forbes list

Four current Yale students and more than a dozen recent alumni were named to Forbes magazine’s annual “30 Under 30” list, which recognizes some 600 ...

Yale News

Where We Stand on Climate

All discussions of the climate crisis start with science, and the science is grim. Despite a La Niña wave cooling the global temperature in 2020 ...

The New Yorker

A Seriously Long-Term Investment: Inside SunZia's Transmission Adventure

When planning to decarbonize the grid, many analysts see transmission lines as analogous to "political will." It's necessary and it's rarely possible to summon it ...

Clean Energy Finance Forum

Pollinator-Friendly Solar Could be a Win-Win for Climate and Landowners, but Greenwashing is a Worry

Solar developers are planting native flowers and grasses near—or even in between—solar panels, addressing the twin problems of pollinator decline and climate change.

Inside Climate News

solar farm with pollinator-friendly habitat

Texas-Sized Targets: A Simulated Policy Memo Makes a Real Case for Higher Renewables Standards

Nothing succeeds like exceeding. In this policy memo, which she wrote as part of coursework for the certificate in Financing and Deploying Clean Energy, attorney ...

Clean Energy Finance Forum

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