… 101 Workshop (Feb 19): Basics of climate entrepreneurship, stages, pathways, and business models; building desirable products/services Speaker Sessions (Feb 21 & 26): Two sessions with startups Week 3: Scale-out Climate Innovation - Capital & Ecosystem … with Slides Workshop (April 8): Crafting and presenting an effective pitch Week 5: Final Showcase (April 17) Teams present ideas to cohorts for feedback Opportunity to join the …
… seeks to: Stimulate applications of entrepreneurship and innovation to address issues of sustainability; Promote multi-disciplinary approaches to environmental/social problem … Hall , and the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale . On April 4th - 5th, 2024, this event will virtually bring together Yale’s entrepreneurs in three days packed with pitches, … Sustainable Venture Prize . To what extent is the Sustainable Venture Prize orientated towards environmental sustainability? The primary objective is to ensure that your …
… Program Overview Developed in collaboration between The Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY) and the Yale Center for Environmental Justice (YCEJ), … inequities, lack of opportunities, and disadvantages can be addressed from empathy, knowledge, and the intention of making this a better world. Together we can build relationships, networks, and connections–and take tangible action–to rethink and develop clean, affordable, …
… hosts a series of ideation workshops with leaders of organizations at the intersection of business and the environment. Ideation workshops are highly interactive, fast-paced sessions … about creating a culture of playfulness, there is no better way to get a sense of how someone thinks, works, and collaborates than to see them in action. What we ask of … With Our Clients How can we redesign the retail experience to reflect our company’s sustainability initiatives and accomplishments? How can we motivate our employees to design …
… French-based insurer led the industry on a number of corporate social responsibility and sustainability indexes. Not content to rest on these laurels, AXA transferred its CR team … Sustainability, and Public Affairs." The reorganization inspired a reconsideration of how AXA monitored and measured its CR efforts. The metrics Steenland and her group had … new metrics was a tall order, but would be another step to establishing CR inside AXA. Eventually, the company aspired to produce an “integrated report” that would define the …
… with installations on multi-family dwellings, low homeownership rates. We are interested in how peer-to-peer and on-the-ground community campaigns might be applied to overcome these … of Forestry & Environmental Studies Duke University Tel Aviv University Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY) Connecticut Green Bank New York State Energy Research … B. (2019). Short-term interventions for long-term change: spreading stable green norms in networks. Review of Behavioral Economics, 6(1), 53-93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/105.00000095 …
… real change for the better...in materials, policy, workers' rights, entrepreneurship, and beyond. Our goals are to: Inform - host events and create resources that inform students about the various types of roles that exist … who want to focus their careers in this area. We're open to ideas! Circularity Corporate Sustainability Environmental Innovation Moving the Needle: An Exploration of Sustainable …
… the companies to withdraw their pledge. And the 2015 fire season was the worst in nearly two decades, as would-be oil palm growers set fire to rainforests and peatlands to clear … Indonesia had established infrastructure to mill, refine, and export the substance. However, oil palm cultivation had created social tensions as many rural inhabitants claimed … many environmentalists believed that the agreement represented a breakthrough. The events of 2015 suggested otherwise, forcing businesses, NGOs and sympathetic government …
… 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 financing. With Walmart de … retailer. In addition, the project allowed Walmart de México to get closer to some of its sustainability goals. The wind farm would supply electricity to 348 Walmart de México … the transmission rates for renewable energy and had constructed a few projects of its own. However, there were no special feed-in-tariffs for renewable energy and only a few tax …
… the Chief Operating Officer of Gifford Pinchot State University (GPSU) Foundation**, called Robert Farrington, a Managing Director at Commonfund. The GPSU student government had … to do, but Gentry admitted that there was very little consensus among the new group about how to respond. This was not the first time Farrington had received such a call. Commonfund … carbon assets from their portfolios. As they considered potential investments with an eye toward reducing exposure to carbon, what would be the most meaningful measure of carbon …