Kelly Levin, senior associate with World Resources Institute’s global climate program, spoke with Alix Kashdan (FES ’20) and Liz Bourguet (FES ’20) during the Yale Carbon Removal Symposium about carbon removal, global climate policy, and her work at World Resources Institute.
Environmental experts have increasingly been calling for a paradigm shift in how we craft climate change policy. On October 4, Dr. Hans Bruyninckx, the Executive Director of the European Environmental Agency (EEA), spoke at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies about what this paradigm shift could look like in Europe.
Leaders in science, policy, and business gathered on October 4 at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (FES) to discuss and debate pathways for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The event was co-hosted by the Climate Change Learning Community, Climate Change SIG, the Yale Center for Business and the Environment, Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking, and Carbon 180.
The Yale Environmental Dialogue kicked off Climate Week in New York City this Sunday with an event featuring some of the environmental movement’s biggest thought leaders. As global leaders gather to discuss the climate crisis, the Yale Environmental Dialogue hosted its own lively conversation on the trajectory of the global response to climate change.
Barry Hill, a visiting scholar at the Environmental Law Institute and an adjunct professor of law at Vermont Law School - as well as the former Director of the Office of Environmental Justice at the EPA - joins Alix Kashdan (FES ‘20) and Liz Bourguet (FES ‘20) to talk about the constitutional right to a healthy environment.
Sub-national contributions to climate change mitigation continue to be an important subject of conversation here at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and abroad in London, where the Center convened a Workshop on Sub-National Climate Change Metrics. The workshop, which took place May 1–2, featured prominent organizations working on sub-national climate change metrics. Participants included representatives from sub-national governments, climate-focused organizations, non-profit organizations, and companies.
Global sustainability cannot be achieved without addressing international consumption and production practices. This summer, the Center will introduce a new index of environmental impacts from economic activity, a project made possible by generous support by Center Advisory Board Members Roberta Gordon and Marshall Ruben. The goal of the project is to create metrics aggregated into a sustainability index, which will enable financial markets to achieve global sustainability goals.
This interview originally appeared in Environment Next on May 29, 2019, where it can be accessed here.
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The Green New Deal proposal has provided a vision of what a sustainable future in the United States could look like. Introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives in February 2019, the resolution proposes a transformation of the U.S. economy to enact major societal change and actively address climate change. Key among its goals is achieving economy-wide net zero greenhouse gas emissions and establishing millions of high-wage jobs.
Katie Dykes, the Commissioner of Connecticut’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, joins Alix Kashdan (FES ’20) and Liz Bourguet (FES ’20) during the Yale Environmental Dialogue to talk about her new role as Commissioner, including her energy goals for the state and what she is most excited to work on.
