… to address the question of how an organization should design and implement an internal carbon charge. Internal carbon pricing is a powerful tool the private sector can employ to … a policy framework of key decisions lessons learned from an examination of case studies on Yale University, Microsoft, Société Générale, Delta, and QANTAS Airlines in the context of … a policy framework of key decisions lessons learned from an examination of case studies on Yale University, Microsoft, Société Générale, Delta, and QANTAS Airlines in the context of …
… university clients were either actively engaged in discussions about their exposure to carbon in their portfolio or had just framed a policy concerning carbon investing. Commonfund had been helping their clients think through these new … dilemmas. The basic question was how should they frame their investment policies regarding carbon and what should be the objective of such a policy? There were many possibilities - …
… Pepsi has a new challenge. In 2007, PepsiCo became the first consumer company to use the Carbon Reduction Label (CRL) on packets of its Walkers Crisps potato chips in the United Kingdom. Developed by the U.K.-based Carbon Trust, the CRL is meant to communicate to consumers not only the individual product's carbon footprint but also the company's overall pledge to reduce that footprint over a …
… The Yale Farm was founded in 2003 by a group of students who wished to see the dining halls … they started a pilot project to introduce local, seasonal food into the menu of one of Yale's undergraduate residential colleges. The experiment was a success with both students and dining hall staff, and helped inspire the Yale Dining Hall to move toward more organic and locally grown food sources (though the vast …
… The conference also left in doubt the future of current mechanisms such as the European Carbon Market. The conference in Copenhagen came after 20 years of international conferences … Responding to the Kyoto framework, the European Union launched a cap-and-trade system for carbon credits in 2005, which led to an explosion of climate-related investment opportunities in Europe, Latin America and Asia. A new industry around carbon finance emerged, with firms like Climate Change Capital (CCC) of London taking the …
… Yale Center for Business and the Environment is partnering with the Connecticut Green … assess a realistic contribution from RTTs in achieving Connecticut’s transition to a less carbon-intensive economy, and to establish the knowledge necessary for effective policies … Management '17) Amir Chireh Mehr (MBA '17, Master of Environmental Management '17) Yale Center for Business and the Environment is partnering with the Connecticut Green …
… Yale Center for Business and the Environment partnered with the Connecticut Green … assess a realistic contribution from RTTs in achieving Connecticut’s transition to a less carbon-intensive economy, and to establish the knowledge necessary for effective policies … '16) Philip Picotte (Master of Environmental Management '17) Tanveer Singh Chawla (MBA '17) Yale Center for Business and the Environment partnered with the Connecticut Green …
… standards developed in recent years for new buildings do not address much of the existing carbon emissions. In the face of the long replacement time, focus has shifted to retrofits … Financial institutions are reluctant to lend when any claim that they might make in the event of a default is junior to the property mortgage holder. This is why the Environmental … the investment cost for energy-efficiency upgrades and the subsequent cost savings. Source Yale Center for Business and the Environment Areas of Focus Sustainable Finance and ESG …
… expertise and decades of weather-related data to estimate the frequency of major weather events. It was widely acknowledged that climate change was likely to increase the frequency of major events, but it would take years for the changes to show up in actuarial models. Nonetheless, … expertise and decades of weather-related data to estimate the frequency of major weather events. It was widely acknowledged that climate change was likely to increase the frequency …
… a farm cash flow model. The model incorporates environmental externalities — including carbon emissions, soil erosion, and groundwater recharge — associated with land devoted to … turfgrass. However, we hypothesize that information and behavioral failures are currently preventing developers from adopting the practice. Thus, there may be a role for policy to spur … with conventional solar, a large social benefit of pollinator-friendly solar stems from the carbon emissions that solar energy production avoids. Pollinator-friendly solar also results …