The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), colloquially and quasi-officially known as Superfund, is primarily associated with long, costly cleanup projects which seek to prevent existing public health hazards from causing further harm in the future.
A practical, bipartisan call to action from the world’s leading thinkers on the environment and sustainability
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.
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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.
Center Director Dan Esty speaks with The New York Times about COVID-19, climate change, and environmental policy lessons that can be learned from the pandemic. Read the interview here.
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.
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.
Esty, Former Official, Optimistic on Post-Trump Overhaul of EPA
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.
