… The Yale Initiative on Sustainable Finance (YISF) aims to produce fresh thinking and cutting-edge research on the challenges to 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. Click to learn …
… Circularity Equity and Justice Rising Leaders on the Sustainable Development Goals … Research Rising Leaders on the Sustainable Development Goals Findings from a Global Survey for Business Schools Overview A new global study measuring awareness and engagement of the … analyses in just a few clicks. View the data in Tableau > Media Media Todd Cort featured in GreenBiz 350 podcast (November 22, 2019) New Survey Leverages Global Network to Measure …
… most heavily traded edible oil in the world. Golden Agri Resources (GAR) has been in the forefront of this palm oil boom in Indonesia. Founded in 1996 by the influential Widjaja … Responding to findings by scientists that linked palm oil plantations to deforestation, Greenpeace, a global environmental NGO, began campaigning in 2005 to save the Indonesian … GAR’s commitments would spur other companies and environmental groups to embrace higher standards. But in 2013, obstacles to this goal remained. The Roundtable for Sustainable Palm …
… This prize provides seed funding for start-up ventures in the field of business and the environment. The goal of the funding … Prospect Growth (2023) BOXI (2022) Tyree Technologies (2022) The Velocity Raptor (2022) GreenBowl (2021) WovX (2021) Upright (2020) Ecopackables (2020) Cambium Carbon (2019) Floe … if you’ve won the Climate Innovation Grants. 7. My project is commercializing a faculty led research project, can I apply? No, projects of this nature are ineligible for the Sobotka …
… The Sustainable Venture Prize supports Yale's most innovative ideas for businesses that advance a more sustainable way of life. Past winners include an online … fuel while simultaneously solving waste management issues to create energy efficient green city that meets SDG-7,8,11. Prospect Growth - Manufactures nanoparticle-based … for increasing crop yields while reducing nutrient inputs and losses. Over ten years of research have shown that nanofertilizers outperform conventional fertilizers, but …
… we are navigating similar questions about how to understand the world and change it for the better. We gather to build community—and have the kind of meaningful and generative conversations that transform our work, our lives, and our world. Convened by Patagonia Director of Philosophy and … academic year, we will financially and administratively support additional gatherings for students including dinners, hiking, happy hours, and other social occasions. While not …
… company designed, manufactured, distributed, and serviced diesel and natural gas engines, for transportation, construction, and power generation. In addition to the engines, it … a small Indiana town 100 years earlier, Cummins had prided itself on value-driven ethical standards. It operated worldwide under a formal Mission Statement: "We will demand that … and component systems that met increasingly strict emissions standards. Through extensive research and development it created diesels that complied to evolving standards, ranging …
… In 2014, the four largest palm oil trading companies signed an agreement to end deforestation, development of peat lands and exploitation of locals not only with their own … brands of palm oil), they had vast influence on growers. If they could be convinced to “green” not only their own operations but also that of their suppliers, perhaps the problems … could represent substantial hits to Wilmar's business if not handled correctly. ForGreenpeace and other NGOs, the opposition to IPOP raised questions of how to bring the …
… In early 2014 Alcoa announced that Ford's F-150 pick-up trucks, the best-selling vehicles in the U.S., would use … reflected the response of auto manufacturers to the increasingly rigorous fuel economy standardsfor U.S. vehicles and consumer preferences for high mileage vehicles. To meet those standards, automakers had begun using aluminum to reduce vehicle mass, allowing a smaller, …
… About the program Private corporations have increasingly stepped forward as leaders in the realm of social and environmental sustainability. By re-thinking … movement, as they seek to launch careers in the private sector that focus on doing good for communities, ecosystems, and the planet. The Pathways in Business and the Environment … in their careers. By sharing their stories, speakers provide a set of possible roadmaps for students to follow (or avoid). From the outside, roles at the intersection of business …