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#19: Alexander Verbeek

In this two-part podcast Yale World Fellow Alexander Verbeek, strategic policy advisory on global issues at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, discusses how to build an robust social network — and how to use it effectively to communicate key issues and build a global community (part 1). He then looks at how we might address some of the most critical environmental issues with an integrated approach that has governments working together with industry, civil society, and think tanks (part 2).

Part One:

#8: Elaine Kub

Elaine Kub, commodity analyst and author of Mastering the Grain Markets, visits with Erin Schnettler, Yale F&ES ‘14, about how major grain commodities are produced, traded, and sold in the United States – and what might be done to make the system more sustainable.

Yale Sustainable Finance Symposium

Regearing the Global Response to Climate Change: 5 Past Mistakes the 2015 Paris Agreement Needs to Fix

This blog was originally published on the Huffington Post on December 10, 2015.

By Daniel C. Esty

Remaking The Paris 2015 Climate Change Agreement To Ensure Broader Engagement

by Daniel C. Esty

For two decades, the global response to climate change has centered on a top-down, national-government-led framework based on a series of emissions reduction targets and timetables. But this international treaty architecture has produced neither the action orientation nor the on-the-ground results needed to address the build-up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.