… The Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY) is looking for 2-3 students to conduct an independent study (1.5 credits) on mapping climate tech. Over the course of the semester, the students will define sub-categories of the climate tech landscape … highlighting the urgency of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. The report outlines four potential pathways for reaching that goal. The pathways are vastly different, but one …
… The Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY) is looking for a team of students to conduct an … technologies. Each student (or pair of students) will focus on 1-2 technologies. Over the course of the semester, the students will review existing articles and reports, while also … (including steel and concrete) New energy technology for buildings (including HVAC) Electric grid modernization Transportation and mobility Food and agriculture Advanced …
… grid congestion and household income. We analyzed the data at the census block group level for 7 Avangrid feeders and 8 Eversource feeders. Census block groups are small geographical units typically including a few … areas in Connecticut. This is an interesting finding when thinking about targeting solar adoptions to areas of high grid congestion, and additional research could help to parse it …
… the recipients of the 2019 RTA Seed Innovation Grant. By providing $15,000 to each of the four winners, the grant will support novel approaches to supporting low-carbon heating and … huge and largely untapped market,” said Stuart DeCew, Executive Director at the Yale Center for Business and the Environment, which manages the grant. “We need to refine the … technology installers. Primary applicant: Greenbanc. A design for a high-efficiency, multi-source heat pump system that would provide a lower-cost option for residential heating and …
… Today, the Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY) opened its new certificate in Financing and … want to advance their careers as well as the transition to a clean economy. Vero Bourg-Meyer, Program Director, Clean Energy and Conservation Finance, Brad Gentry, the newly appointed Frederick K. Weyerhaeuser Professor in the Practice of Forest Resources Management and Policy and Ron Smith, Damon Wells Professor at Yale University Geology …
… passed its landmark energy bill. Act 236, also known as the Distributed Energy Resources (DER) program, which created a net-metering system permitting residential and small-commercial utility customers who install photovoltaic arrays to get credit for excess power sent back to the grid. After the introduction of DER, the Palmetto State … power to one household. Community shared solar can be described as a PV array where the electricity produced is shared by the community or by more than one household. For …
… Photo credit: Blue Forest Conservation Pay for Performance (PFP) Bonds, also known as Pay for Success Bonds or … This bond helps align the incentives of USFS and other beneficiaries, such as water and electric utilities, to share in forest restoration costs just as they share in benefits. … over $1.5 billion forforest restoration. Investor return comes from a combination of increasing and monetizing greater water yield, increasing the provision of hydroelectricity …
… flagship event in San Francisco on Oct. 9-15 (SOCAP15) is considered the largest conference for impact investors and social entrepreneurs in the world. The event has drawn over 10,000 … to be a continuous intellectual gap regarding awareness that where there is a natural resource issue, there is always a social issue. “The reality is that when you have a deep … and collaborations that start at SOCAP15. This article is the first in a series of three stories covering the conservation finance curriculum at SOCAP. It is part of an online …
… The Sobotka Seed Stage Success Stories will introduce you to former recipients of the grants who share their experience and perspective. The Yale Center … box verification scheme, so they’re making the standards entirely transparent and open-sourced, similar to what B Lab has done for its process of certifying responsible companies …
… billion, their actions have proven a potent signal: their stakeholders now approach Garanti for advice on the latest developments in sustainability. During the webinar, Garanti’s … Change Action Plan guides Garanti’s climate strategy and action. The Plan comprises four pillars: prioritizing low carbon investments reducing deforestation establishing green … it diminishes the profitability of fossil fuel investments through sensitivity analysis by increasing the cost of natural gas and the cost of coal in the mid- and long-term. Second, …