… Awareness of the environmental and societal challenges facing our world has expanded dramatically … of stakeholders, including organizations, vulnerable communities, and the environment. -Ingrid C. Burke, Carl W. Knobloch, Jr. Dean; Professor of Ecosystem Ecology at Yale School of …
… Companies are in a constant state of disruption and evolution as they attempt to stay ahead of … model and promotes 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 natural resource extraction to end-of-life product disposal. Adopting this framework can help companies …
… When it comes to climate change, the science is unequivocal: global temperatures will continue to rise … environmental sustainability — exacerbates this confusion. To cut through the noise, our team from the Yale School of Management narrowed in on one, universal metric that is the … 2015, emissions reduction goals, and emissions reduction initiatives. We then analyzed what we found and have summarized our findings below. While our insights cover a range of …
… Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPSs), using Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) to track and commoditize renewable … energy generation, have made significant contributions to renewable energy deployment. A truly clean electricity grid, however, will need to rely on zero-carbon energy throughout … power generates electricity during the day, but fails to provide energy during the evening hours when demand peaks. The resulting overproduction and waste of renewable energy — and …
… This report seeks to address the question of how an organization should design and implement an … is not clear how implementation might differ in a business environment or another setting. Our project seeks to supplement the growing carbon-pricing literature, given the promise of … from increased healthcare costs and exacerbated environmental damage to payment at the source of pollution. By doing so, it incentivizes carbon-emissions reductions and …
… This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the feasibility of designing and financing a … steps involved in designing a GRH. These steps include involving the community, determining what electrical loads will be backed up, sizing a battery, choosing a technology mix, and … and takeaways from the energy and financial model we developed using Microsoft Excel. Our energy and financial model, published with this report, is built using the Connecticut …
… Five Yale students designed an off-grid renewable energy system for a meat processing plant in Montana. The plant’s nonprofit owner sought to achieve independence from the local energy grid. The Yale team recommended a hybrid solar-wind-storage system, plus a backup gas …
… The objective of this project is to investigate ways that consumers make inferences about green product quality. … heuristic, whereby they assume that companies have a fixed amount of manufacturing resources. Thus, resources devoted to “making the product green” come at the expense of making the product …
… For the world to meet the Paris Agreement goals, every company and organization should take responsibility for its … goal—net-zero emissions by 2050—to the level of an organization? This report defines four ways to make a net-zero commitment clear to an organization’sstakeholders: Whatscope of emissions does the commitment address? Is the commitment proportional to the …
… This global study measures awareness and engagement of the UN’sSustainable Development Goals. … into collaboration models and how businessschools can incorporate SDGs into their discourse and curriculum, creating change and leading toward peace and prosperity for the … into collaboration models and how businessschools can incorporate SDGs into their discourse and curriculum, creating change and leading toward peace and prosperity for the …