Projects

The Center seeks to be a thought leader, a reliable source of policy analysis, a dialogue convener, and a catalyst for a sustainable global future. Our work is diverse in scale and scope, but we are committed to advancing environmental decision-making across the following key focal areas:

September 1, 2023

Sustainable management of the Global Commons– the climate system, ozone layer, land biosphere, oceans, and ice sheets & glaciers – requires data and metrics to guide better poli­cies. To this end, the 2022 Global Commons Stewardship (GCS) Index...

April 1, 2022

The 2022 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) provides a data-driven summary of the state of sustainability around the world. Using 40 performance indicators across 11 issue categories, the EPI ranks 180 countries on climate change performance, environmental health, and ecosystem vitality....

January 1, 2022

The Yale Initiative on Sustainable Finance (YISF) aims to produce fresh thinking and cutting-edge research on the challenges to integrating sustainability concerns into financial markets and investment decisions.

YISF functions as a knowledge hub and provides space for intellectual...

January 1, 2019

The SDSN USA Network was launched in December 2018 with the mission to implement the SDGs in the US by building and mobilizing a national network of academic institutions. The priority on energy and climate work originated during discussions at the SDSN USA launch, in response to a need for an...