… environment – essential to a low carbon future Connecticut is one of several New England states that hold lofty ambitions for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050. … heating to the widespread use of biomass in Sweden and district heating in Denmark. Energy sources vary, too: Norway produces 99 percent of its electricity from hydro, Sweden 50 … region has, at the ready, an extensive toolkit for financial innovation, such as leasing, community campaigns, first-loss loans, and Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing. …
… Meat makes for curious math: about 25 calories is required to create just 1 calorie of beef. The ratio … for meat one of today's most important tech trends. And why? Friedrich identified four central reasons that conventional meat consumption must be reined in. First, food that … “a coalition of 40 institutional investors with a valuation of $1.25 trillion is making a business case to several multinational food manufacturers for the adoption of alternative …
… Electricity production, though, is only one part of the energy system where renewable sources bring value and environmental benefits. Buildings’ demand for heating and cooling—a … market mechanisms that can streamline investments. (FORTT is based at the Yale Center forBusiness and the Environment and is part of a larger coalition that includes the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, Eversource Energy, the United Illuminating Company and the Connecticut Green Bank.) RTTs harness renewable energy …
… Royal DSM executives highlighted internal carbon pricing as an important financial tool for driving business growth in the first of a new webinar series organized by the Carbon Pricing … highlighted the role and value of DSM’s internal carbon price. “We want to future-proof ourbusiness,” Sijbesma said. DSM aspires to be prepared for the day when a carbon price …
… “We all thought it was something that we should be getting hold of as an entrepreneurial community, and as a business opportunity,” said Boyd, who at the time was CEO of Virgin Mobile South Africa. So … Australia, Singapore, the Trans-Siberian Railroad. He circumscribed the world over the course of a year. Most recently, in another promising departure, he reduced his advisory role …
… The Yale Center forBusiness and the Environment, along with the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, … Ecology motivated their move to New Haven, and, along with two children, the family of four is settling in. “We’re starting to build up our identity,” said Gronli, which mostly …
… promised two things: (1) support for the fledgling green sector of the economy; and (2) a source of relatively high-paying jobs that do not require a college education. While the … to better understand the longevity of jobs created by the solar PV industry here in the UnitedStates. As noted above, the construction sector in New Zealand follows a boom-bust cycle, …
… Yale’s Feasibility of Renewable Thermal Technology initiative (FORTT), which is developing financial models and strategies to advance renewable thermal technologies in Connecticut, recently formalized partnerships with Eversource and The United Illuminating Company (UI), the state’s largest electric utilities. “Along with the …
… The Towards Science Communications with Impact course taught by Paul Lussier at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies culminated in … presented our group’s findings to the World BusinessCouncil on SustainableDevelopment (WBCSD) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). As part of the course, … with business leaders. From these interviews, we refined a value for both the businesscommunity and the scientific community that would be compelling for both parties. In early …
… Why We Disagree about Climate Change , George Marshall’s Don’t Even Think About It: Why Our Brains are Wired to Ignore Climate Change , and Naomi Oreskes’, Merchants of Doubt as … As my classmate describes in more detail in her blog post , my team worked with the World BusinessCouncilforSustainableDevelopment (WBCSD) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), applying humanistic …