A Better Planet: 40 Big Ideas for A Sustainable Future
A practical, bipartisan call to action from the world’s leading thinkers on the environment and sustainability
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New Collaboration Highlights Impact of the Digital Economy
Tuesday, September 13, 2022
The Network for the Digital Economy and the Environment is a collaboration between the Yale School of the Environment, The Environmental Law Institute, and the Center for Law, Energy & the Environment at the University of California, Berkeley which highlights the potential energy and environmental impact that our online footprint creates. The Yale Center for Industrail Ecology’s very own Reid Lifset is one of the lead researchers of the initaitive.
Find out more about the exciting research being done by the initiative here.
A Better Planet inspires climate action from "no" to "go"
Friday, July 15, 2022
In an interview with The Economist, Center Director Dan Esty, highlights how policy “red lights” must be trasformed to “green lights” that drive innovation with incentives that engage the world’s entrepreneurs, financial markets and creative spirits in the pursuit of a net-zero future. This philosphy is expanded upon and highlighted in the recently released book “A Better Planet: 40 Big Ideas for a Sustainable Future”.
Read the interview here.
Buy A Better Planet: 40 Big Ideas for a Sustainable Future here.
Pathways to a Sustainable Future: Lessons from "A Better Planet"
Thursday, December 24, 2020
As the nation shifts from a focus on politics to efforts to develop policy, Center Director Dan Esty explores options for new initiatives and progress across the country related to energy, environment, conservation, land use, and other sustainability issues. The discussion built on ideas from the edited book, A Better Planet: 40 Big Ideas for a Sustainable Future.
Measurement Tools for a Regeneration Path: Introductory Keynote by Dan Esty
Monday, November 23, 2020
Center Director Dan Esty appeared as the introductory keynote speaker to the “Measurement Tools for a Regeneration Path” panel discussion, hosted by the alliance Regeneration 20|30. Esty spoke about the importance of business performance measurement tools in the sustainability sector, and the improvements required to better measure the long-term environmental impacts of committed companies.
To fight climate change, the U.S. must change the way it thinks about protecting the environment
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
In an op-ed with Market Watch, Center Director Dan Esty shared that to fight climate change, the U.S. must change the way it thinks about protecting the environment. We need more positive incentives to inspire fresh thinking, spur technology development and channel capital.
Find the article here.
Understanding the Impact of Climate Change on Wildfires with Dan Esty
Thursday, October 8, 2020
Center Director Dan C. Esty joined Cheddar Reveals to discuss the science behind how climate change impacts wildfires, the economic impacts of the wildfires in California and Oregon, and policies both current and future that may help mitigate the prevalence and intensity of these fires.
Check out the interview here.
Christiana Figueres Receives 2020 Honorary Degree
Monday, May 18, 2020
The Center would like to express our deepest congratulations to Christiana Figueres, an internationally recognized leader on global climate change, who will receive an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree to signal her achievement and immense contribution to environmental and social activism. As executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, she worked across national boundaries and competing interests to galvanize nearly two hundred countries as parties to the Paris Agreement.
In 2016 at an event hosted by the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Ms. Figueres discussed the urgent new phase necessary in the fight to curb global warming. She also joined Center Director Dan Esty to discuss the Paris Climate Agreement in a studio interview. Click here to view their discussion.
To read more about Ms.Figueres accomplishments, click here.
Congratulations to Ms. Figueres and the rest of the class of 2020!
Virtual Yale Business Sustainability Summit Commemorates Earth Day
Thursday, April 23, 2020
On April 15, the Yale Business Sustainability Summit marked the 50th anniversary of Earth Day with a virtual discussion that convened CEOs and corporate sustainability thought leaders to discuss the evolving role of business in addressing society’s sustainability challenges.
Dan Esty, Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy, and Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Lester Crown Professor in the Practice of Management and senior associate dean for leadership studies at the Yale School of Management, hosted the event.
Click here or on the link below to read more and watch a recording of the event.
https://som.yale.edu/news/2020/04/virtual-yale-business-sustainability-summit-commemorates-earth-day
Dan Esty’s Challenge to ACOEL: Let’s Do It
Tuesday, December 17, 2019
Earlier this fall, Center Director Dan Esty spoke at a meeting of the American College of Environmental Lawyers. Read more about the event at the link below:
https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/dan-esty-s-challenge-to-acoel-let-s-do-95042/
