Sustainability

Yale SOM’s Stefano Giglio explains how the two environmental threats can amplify each other—and why understanding those interactions matters for the economy.

Yale SOM’s Todd Cort, an expert on corporate sustainability and sustainable finance, explains how AI is giving companies new ways to price environmental and social risks.

In a new working paper, Yale SOM’s Kelly Shue and Samuel Hartzmark of Boston College show that the use of reflective aerosols to cool the plane would fundamentally shift the economics of climate change, altering incentives for renewable energy, fossil fuels, and carbon removal.

Restoring biodiversity around the globe will require financing from private investors. A new study co-authored by Yale SOM’s Anya Nakhmurina, focusing on the restoration of bat populations, proposes a strategy that could allow investors to support conservation while also turning a profit.

Darcy Shiber-Knowles ’13 has helped grow Dr. Bronner’s from a cult favorite to a force reshaping how industries think about sustainability.

For decades, the Colorado River has delivered less water than allocated, with shrinking reservoirs making up the difference. Yale SOM’s Todd Cort argues that companies across the West have yet to account for this imbalance.

New research from Yale SOM shows that a federal disclosure rule, intended to curb pollution, has also spurred business formation in regulated industries—a finding that comes as the EPA proposes ending the program.

We asked Professor Todd Cort, an expert on sustainability finance, how the revocation of the 2009 EPA Endangerment Finding would affect decisions about climate risk from investors, lenders, and companies.

As Whole Foods expanded in the 1990s, Denis Ring ’84 took on the challenge of developing the grocery chain’s 365 brand. Wooing shoppers with joyful design and affordable prices, he harnessed the power of private labels to expand the scale of organic and all-natural foods.