… Yale Climate and Energy Institute on November 12, 2015. Bob Litterman, former head of risk management for Goldman-Sachs, hopes that society will be as lucky as he … and was the last car through as a major artery for New York closed for the next seven hours. For a man who has spent years trying to alert the financial community to the dangers … awaiting climate scientists and economists working together today? Litterman suggests three: Improving the ability of models to predict worst-case scenarios . Yale atmospheric …
… Spenser Shadle (MF/MBA '13) currently manages conservation-oriented timberlandand organic farmland investments … in San Francisco. Patrick Hook (MF/MBA '13) is a decision support manager at Conservation Forestry, a timberland investment management organization based in Exeter, NH. Alumni … risks inherent in wetland mitigation banking during an Forest and Ecosystem Finance course; while completing a required assignment, they discovered that it was difficult to …
… This weekend amongst the crowds and high profile names at the Yale Environmental Sustainability Summit, you’ll find Conservation Matrix – an innovative crowdfunding platform started by two current joint degree students, Thomas Selby (MEM/MBA ’16) and Sumit … and close a deal. “We started Conservation Matrix after feeling powerless about our ability to invest in local environmentally beneficial projects,” says Selby. “Unless if …
… SolarCity has an ambitious mission: to put solar panels on every rooftop in America, Jon Carson told students … new senior director of solar ambassadors, spoke to students from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and the Yale School of Management as part of the GE … and the Environment . Frances Beinecke, YC ’71, FES ’74, former president of the Natural Resources Defense Council and McCluskey Fellow at Yale, moderated the discussion, which was …
… - Slides Instead of Learning Opportunities, and it’s something you may have experienced before. During lunch time break, several dozen audience members gather in a lecture hall. … Energy and Environment at the adidas Group, was planning a recent visit to Yale, she shared our desire to avoid SILO. So we asked her what we ask all of our GreenLight clients - What’s …
… The Sabin Stories will introduce you to former winners of the Sabin Sustainable Venture Prize as they share experiences and reflect … satellites to determine the size and species of trees in forests. Faced with limited resources for a forest management project in Armenia, the young entrepreneur came up with an …
… Will 2015 prove to be a historic year for climate and sustainability? There is reason to hope, according to … of the center, and also included Frances Beinecke, the former president of the National Resources Defense Council and a scholar at Yale; Pavan Sukhdev, an environmental economist and …
… It has only been a week since the stunning revelation that the Volkswagen group equipped millions of … of the latter and cases featuring the US energy company’s massive financial fraud are therefore taught in business schools around the world. Here are seven reasons why the Volkswagen … EDT Online Related News SOM, FES to collaborate on Global Network projects Global Network Courses: Building a Toolkit for Global Teams … David Bach … It has only been a week since the …
… The boy from Sierra Leone was 10 or 11 years old. He was quick to learn, though never formally … smallholder farms to larger, often global, markets. The nonprofit is organized around threebasic principles. First, they help farmers to see their operations as a business with …
… As global head of research at Thomson Reuters Wealth Management/Lipper, Robert Jenkins spends a … the discovery process hasn’t been easy. The problem, Jenkins says, is that fund managers and fund selectors have no single standard for analyzing or ranking Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors or Socially …