Kicking off Climate Week 2017, Dan Esty, the Director of the Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy (YCELP) moderated a panel titled “Unstoppable Force” that explored the role of states, cities, and businesses in implementing the Paris Climate Change Agreement.
By: Lisa Dale, YCELP Associate Director
By: Russell Patterson, YCELP Fellow
On February 24 and 25, hundreds of students, professors, and practitioners from across Yale University and the world gathered at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (FES) for the 2017 New Directions in Environmental Law Conference. Jointly hosted by FES and the Yale Law School, the conference is an annual student-run event that explores legal and policy dimensions across specific themes.
By Lucy Kessler, YCELP Communications RA.
Although President-elect Trump has made his opinions widely known, his plans for acting on those statements remain unclear and undefined—leaving a void filled with speculation and conjecture.
By Steve Arowolo, Founder and CEO, Green Shift Africa, Cape Town, South Africa
By Catherine Martini
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.
