The geopolitical context effectuated by the Russian invasion of Ukraine complicates the European Parliament’s (EP) July 6, 2022, vote to include natural gas and nuclear energy in the European Union’s (EU) taxonomy for sustainable activities (green taxonomy)—effectively incentivizing private investment in the energy sources.
Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy
Yale School of the Environment and Yale Law School
U.S. financial regulators lag behind other countries in requiring corporations to disclose their financial risks from climate change. Hana Vizcarra, staff attorney at Harvard Law School’s Environmental & Energy Law Program, joins Charles Harper (YSE ’22) to discuss the financial sector, climate risk disclosure, and how courts and President Biden’s SEC can improve climate reporting.
Sue Biniaz, a lecturer at Yale Law School and former lead climate lawyer for the U.S. State Department, joins Jhena Vigrass (YSE ’22) and Charles Harper (YSE ’22) to discuss what might lie in store for the Paris Agreement and international climate cooperation after the momentous events occurring later this week—namely the U.S. election and the official U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement.
This June, four authors from “A Better Planet: Pathways to a Sustainable Future” joined Center Director Dan Esty, Yale FES Dean Indy Burke, and special guest UN Ambassador Marco Antonio Suazo to discuss how the lessons from “A Better Planet” can be used to address today’s environmental challenges.
An opinion piece by Taryn Akiyama, Center Research Assistant
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.
FES students Camila Rodriguez Taylor (FES ‘19) and Tobias Daros (FES and SOM ‘20) describe their experiences working on country delegations at the UN Climate Conference in Poland in December 2018.
