Yale Center for Business and the Environment
by Yale Center for Business and the Environment
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Description
Environmental awareness has become an important strategic focus in the business world. In today's global economy, leading businesses recognize that corporate environmental strategy contributes to competitiveness and shareholder value. The Yale Center for Business and the Environment provides a focal point for research, education, and outreach to advance business solutions to global environmental problems. The Center joins the strengths of two world-renowned graduate schools - the Yale School of Management and the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies - together with a network of internal and external thought leaders at the business-environment interface.
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Convergence of Climate Change, Energy Policy and National Security | Theodore Roosevelt IV speaks about the opportunities to advance Climate Change and Conservation solutions through financial markets and mechanisms for greenhouse gas emissions. | 4/14/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Environmental Market Solutions for Global Warming | A presentation by Jon A. Anda; President, Environmental Markets Network, Environmental Defense on Environmental Market Solutions for Global Warming. Discussion on Environmental Markets Network efforts to promote climate change legislation among... | 4/14/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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For the Love of Timber | Andrew Aulisi, Director of the Markets and Enterprise Program for the World Resources Institute speaks on the changing role of the forest products sector with pending carbon legislation and new clean technologies for biofuels. | 4/15/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Insuring the Future in a Changing World | Ralph Mucerino, President of AIG Global Marine and Energy speaks on insuring the future in a changing world. This netcast is brought to you by the Center for Business and the Environment at Yale and the Yale Office of Sustainability through the... | 4/15/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State of Connecticut, Insurance, and Climate Change | This is the connecticut STate Insurance Department Commissioner, Thomas R. Sullivan, speaking about the State of Connecticut, insurance, and climate change. | 6/17/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Winners and Losers in a Low Carbon Economy: A Look at Innovest's Carbon Beta | This presentation by Mario Lopez-Alcala and Hiroshi Minami, Senior Analysts with Innovest, explores the valuation of publicly-traded companies as it pertains to the risks and opportunities posed by climate change. | 9/2/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Investing in Cleantech: A Conversation between a Venture Capitalist and an Entrepreneur | Lise Dondy, President of the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund, and Howard Berke, Executive Chairman and Founder of Konarka, explore the burgeoning cleantech sector and dynamic roles of venture capitalists and entrepreneurs. | 9/2/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Climate Change Investment Strategies: How a Universal Bank is Leading Investments in a Low Carbon Economy | This presentation by Mark Fulton, Managing Director and Climate Change Strategist for Deutsche Bank, explores climate change investments in mitigation and adaptation strategies for a universal bank. | 9/2/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Funding Solutions to Climate Change: A Philanthropy Panel | Ted Smith, Executive Director of the Henry P. Kendall Foundation, speaks about the Henry P. Kendall Foundation and philanthropy as a funding solution to climate change. | 9/22/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The History of Financial Innovation | Professors Goetzmann and Rouwenhorst give a classic presentation on the 4,000 year history of financial innovation as the first part of the carbon finance speaker series. | 9/22/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Investing in Climate Change: A Panel on Hedge Funds | Martin Whittaker, Director of Environmental Finance Strategies with Mission Point Capital, Andy Ertel, CEO of Evolution Markets, Benjamin Block, Senior Analyst for Ardsley Partners Renewable Energy Strategy, Paul Ezekiel, Global Head of Carbon Trading... | 9/22/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Investment Banks Jump on Board- Mining the Opportunities in Global Carbon Markets. | Abyd will be speaking about how firms identify, evaluate and maximize the financial and strategic opportunities within greenhouse gas emission trading regimes. | 9/22/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Investing in Cleantech: A Conversation between a Venture Capitalist and an Entrepreneur | Lise Dondy, President of the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund, and Howard Berke, Executive Chairman and Founder of Konarka, explore the burgeoning cleantech sector and dynamic roles of venture capitalists and entrepreneurs. | 9/22/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Investing in Clean Energy and Climate Change: A Private Equity Panel | -- | 9/23/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Voluntary Carbon Markets 101: What they are and how they work | Katherine will speak about voluntary carbon markets, both what they are and how they work with her recent research on market trends, quantifying prices and volumes transacted in the marketplace, and evolving standards. | 8/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Critical Insights into the U.S. Carbon Markets | Justin Felt and Elizabeth Zelljadt, analysts at PointCarbon, discuss current and future developments in carbon markets, with a focus on upcoming regional and national schemes in the United States. The speakers also answer questions on the future of... | 7/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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American Farmers and the Emerging Markets for Carbon Offsets in the U.S. and Canada | Shawn Burns, President and CEO of Carbon Credit Corp. and Ted Venners, Chairman of the Board of C-Lock Technology and Founder of Evergreen Energy Inc., discuss C-Lock’s capacity to quantify, measure, record and model soil organic matter on farms. | 7/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Developing a Forest Carbon Market in the U.S. - A Look at the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative | Alec Giffen, Director of the Maine Forest Service, Ellen Hawes, Policy Analyst – Forestry for Environment Northeast, and Jasmine Hyman, Marketing Director of the Gold Standard, discuss the issues and opportunities created by the opening ... | 7/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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People, Forests and Land Use: A History of Resource Exploitation, Conservation, and Sustainable Management | Mark Ashton, Morris K. Jessup Professor of Silviculture and Forest Ecology and Director of the School Forests, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, provides a historical overview of forest management and land use. | 7/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lessons from the Voluntary Forest Carbon Markets - How Might they Apply to the Emerging Compliance Markets | Kate Hamilton, Carbon Project Manager at Ecosystem Marketplace, and Edwin Aalders, Director of the International Emissions Trading Association, discuss the development of forest carbon credit standards and their role in emerging compliance markets. | 7/28/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Protecting Forests and Lands through Environmental Markets and Finance - A View from the Nature Conservancy | Mark Tercek, President of the Nature Conservancy, discusses the future of forest carbon trading and strategies for engaging the private market in carbon finance. Forests are an important mechanism for sequestering carbon and protecting the environment... | 8/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bringing Security to Forestry Investors Worldwide: A View from ForestRe | Phil Cottle, managing director of ForestRe, discusses the emerging market for insurance in forestry investing and the risks encountered by forest owners and managers. | 9/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Economic and Business Drivers of Tropical Deforestation Under Large Standing Forests | Frank Merry, Fellow at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, traces the history of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon and addresses the need to make the industry more sustainable and just through new technologies and regulations. | 9/28/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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U.S. Forest Carbon Policy - State and Federal | Laurie Wayburn, President of Pacific Forest Trust, describes the legal system that currently governs U.S. forests and proposes a regulatory method for managing public and private forests towards a "no net loss" policy. | 9/28/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Carbon, Forests and Lands: An Investor's Primer | Deborah Spalding, Managing Partner with Working Lands Investment Partners, LLC, providing an introduction to land investing and carbon markets from an investor’s perspective. | 10/27/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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After the Crunch: The Future of Sustainable Investing and Carbon Finance | Nick Robins, director of HSBC’s Climate Change Centre of Excellence, and Cary Krosinsky, Vice President of Trucost, present the case for long-term, sustainable, socially responsible investing (SRI). | 8/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lessons from the Voluntary Forest Carbon Markets - How Might they Apply to the Emerging Compliance Markets | Kate Hamilton, Carbon Project Manager at Ecosystem Marketplace, and Edwin Aalders, Director of the International Emissions Trading Association, discuss the development of forest carbon credit standards and their role in emerging compliance markets. | 8/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Effects of Watershed Science and Management on Public and Ecosystem Health | Paul Barten, Associate Professor of Forest Resources at the University of Massachusetts, and co-author of Land Use Effects on Streamflow and Water Quality in the Northeastern United States, discusses the complex world of planning for watersheds. | 8/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Land Use, Forests and Urbanization: The Future of Drinking Water Supplies in New England and New York | Paul Hunt, Environmental Manager for the Portland Water District, Thom Kyker-Snowman, Environmental Analyst for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and Fred Gliesing, Senior Forester for the City of New York, discuss urban water supply systems. | 8/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 29 Episodes |
