… When it comes to climatechange, the science is unequivocal: global temperatures will continue to rise for … health, infrastructure, energy, agriculture, fisheries, sea levels, natural ecosystems, and more. For many, the consequences have felt distant and theoretical — until now. … environmental sustainability — exacerbates this confusion. To cut through the noise, our team from the Yale School of Management narrowed in on one, universal metric that is the …
… Awareness of the environmental and societal challenges facing our world has expanded dramatically in recent years. Since 2015, the year we published our … , our key findings include: Business students believe corporate leaders should be solving environmental and social issues—but they perceive the most serious issues to be … better corporate climate practices" - Yale Daily News "Global Network Survey Finds Students More Urgently Focused on Sustainability" - Yale School of Management "Report: Businesses …
… This global study of morethan 3,700 students at 29 top business schools, conducted by Yale University in … C.; Franceschini, L.; Wang, J. (2015). Rising Leaders on Environmental Sustainability and ClimateChange. Yale Center for Business and the Environment. …
… with the most aggressive clean energy policies, the shortcomings of RPSs are becoming more acute. In areas of high solar penetration, for example, solar power generates electricity during the day, but fails to provide energy during the evening hours when demand peaks. The resulting overproduction and waste of renewable energy — and … near high-priced markets. Support a robust, transparent inter-state market while preserving climatechange mitigation benefits. Policymakers have recognized the challenges posed by …
… Nascent Climate Technologies Executive Summary New technologies can play a critical role in solving the climate crisis during the 21st century. When researchers map out scenarios of … often depends on the development of advanced technologies in areas such as renewable resources, energy efficiency and storage, and carbon removal. This report refers to such … technologies.” Without innovation in these areas, addressing climatechange will be far more difficult, if not impossible. The public and private sectors play a crucial role in …
… The investigators found that consumers tend to infer that green products are worse quality than traditional (non-green) alternatives. In short, this effect appears to result from … upon a “zero-sum” heuristic, whereby they assume that companies have a fixed amount of manufacturing resources. Thus, resources devoted to “making the product green” come at the expense of making …
… is not clear how implementation might differ in a business environment or another setting. Our project seeks to supplement the growing carbon-pricing literature, given the promise of internal carbon-charge programs in addressing climatechange. Carbon pricing works to shift the cost of carbon from increased healthcare costs and …
… Using information from the Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECs), Houston's Climate Action Plan, and our own report on Pathways for Reducing Energy Burdens in Harris County, the Texas Energy … to 53%, and virtually eliminate residential natural gas consumption and emissions. Furthermore, even with the increased demand for electricity from the heat pumps, electricity …
… developed two models: 1) the wind turbine (WT) reliability prediction model and 2) the “Four-Quadrant Component/Subsystem Maintenance Model.” The WT reliability prediction model was … The interim results of this research were discussed during presentations made at the annual ClimateChange Conference held at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom (March 27–31, 2011 …
… This project involved the collection of two energy generation datasets: the hourly wind output profiles and the hourly electricity load data at morethan 1000 geographic locations within the Eastern Interconnect of the United States for the …