… to estimate Southern New England residents’ willingness to pay (WTP) a premium for local forest products, clean drinking water from forested watersheds, and access to … create economic incentives for private forest owners by drawing upon previously untapped sources of publicly derived funding. Project Outcomes Based on these findings, the … at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. Projects conducted through the courses Management Plans for Protected Areas, Strategies for Land Conservation, and through …
… to dramatically decrease energy consumption and by extension energy emissions. 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 … needed to decarbonize electricity by 38% as well. These results highlight the importance of increasing the adoption of these technologies by increasing awareness and expanding energy …
… The objective of this project was to develop a new economic formula for maximizing present value of net benefits of wind farm investment. This research … 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 … failure rates that were compiled from the literature review phase of this research. The “Four-Quadrant Component/Subsystem Maintenance Model” was developed to analyze different WT …
… to climate change, the science is unequivocal: global temperatures will continue to rise for decades, largely due to greenhouse gases produced by human activities. This will have … 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 … from the US’ largest public companies and track their goals for reducing them, but after scouring the internet, it became clear that the data is not publicly available in a free, …
… how expressions of autonomous, intrinsic or self-determined motivation are the driving forces of a sustainability characterised by individual and planetary flourishing in contrast to a sustainability characterised by survival. The investigators’ … sustainability has the potential to provide psychological access to individual flourishing and correlative access to deep or transformational learning and …
… Awareness of the environmental and societal challenges facing our world has expanded dramatically in recent years. Since 2015, the year we published our … global warming in the absence of immediate action. The U.S. signed—and then left, before rejoining—the Paris Agreement. In this survey of 2,035 global business students, … [New Report] A new report out of #Yale finds that business students around the world are increasingly concerned about the climate crisis and want both environmental + social …
… In early 2014 Alcoa announced that Ford's F-150 pick-up trucks, the best-selling vehicles in the U.S., would use aluminum1 rather than sheet steel in the truck bed and cab. … success in the automotive sector reflected the response of auto manufacturers to the increasingly rigorous fuel economy standards for U.S. vehicles and consumer preferences for …
… boost. While the proposed wind farm was located in an area with abundant wind resources, absent a creditworthy off-taker the project would not have been able to line up … financial backing, buy and erect the turbines, and begin generating electricity by 2010. For Walmart de México, becoming the wind farm’s off-taker accomplished a number of important … receive 50% of its energy from renewable sources by 2015, even in a period of rapid growth, increasing its square footage in Mexico by 12% in 2012 alone. All told, the efforts of …
… have made significant contributions to renewable energy deployment. A truly clean electricity grid, however, will need to rely on zero-carbon energy throughout the day and … used. RPSs have been unable to achieve these goals due to inherent limitations of a market for RECs. In states with the most aggressive clean energy policies, the shortcomings of RPSs … 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 …
… This report explores this so-called chicken-and-egg dilemma and provides recommendations for growing the EV market and increasing investment in EV charging stations. We compare EV markets across states with a … in terms of EVs as a percentage of new car registrations and number of chargers per capita. Our analysis suggests that the best way for policymakers to facilitate the growth of the …