Current Projects
Environmental Performance Index (EPI)
The Environmental Performance Index is a joint project between the Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy and the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) at Columbia University. The 2016 EPI was launched at the World Economic Forum, and is available here.
Latin American Corporate Sustainability Analysis Project (LACSA)
The Latin American Corporate Sustainability Analysis (LACSA) Project aims to fill a gap in knowledge about corporate sustainability in the developing world with a detailed set of case studies that explore corporate sustainability efforts in prominent Latin American companies.
Project on Environmental Law Effectiveness (PELE)
Building on UMass Boston’s Environmental Conventions Index and YCELP’s EPI, the Project on Environmental Law Effectiveness is focused on combining, integrating and building on the Environmental Conventions Index and the Environmental Performance Index to create a new narrative and knowledge-sharing opportunities on implementation and effectiveness. Correlating these two indices will make it possible to determine whether the implementation of international environmental agreements leads to measurable progress in the specific area the agreement was designed to address.
SEARCH Project
The SEARCH (Solutions for Energy, AiR, Climate, and Health) Center aligns cutting-edge scientific information and tools to support the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s strategic goals of protecting and improving air quality and addressing climate change. SEARCH is an EPA Air, Climate, and Energy (ACE) Center based at Yale University and is co-lead by Dr. Michelle Bell and Dr. Benjamin Hobbs of Johns Hopkins University.
Yale Initiative on Sustainable Finance (YISF)
Through applied research and multidimensional collaboration, YISF seeks to answer some of the most challenging questions facing investors interested in sustainability.
Yale Sustainability Leadership Forum
The 2nd annual Yale Sustainability Leadership Forum is scheduled for September 13 - 15, 2017, and is a three-day program exploring sustainability as an overarching framework for life in the 21st century. The Forum is directed by Daniel C. Esty, the Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy at Yale and Director of the Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy.
Climate Resiliency
The Center is teaming up with the United Nations Environment Program to provide baseline research for their Climate Resilience Initiative: Anticipate, Absorb, Reshape (A2R). YCELP is researching climate resilience globally, focusing on least developed countries, small island developing states, and Africa. Among the areas YCELP will explore are the status of early warning and early action systems, the presence or lack of climate risk-transfer and social protection mechanisms, and the extent to which nations have shifted to climate resilient development pathways.