Sustainability

Putting a Price on Climate Risk

Todd Cort

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

A fire-damaged home reduced to charred walls, twisted beams, and rubble

  • Why We Need Finance to Fight Climate Change

    Jeff Schub

    There won’t be a transition to clean energy without a way to finance what could be the largest infrastructure project ever undertaken. Yale Insights talked with Jeffrey Schub ’13 of the Coalition for Green Capital about what a National Climate Bank could achieve.

    A solar generation project outside Linyi, China. Photo: VCG/VCG via Getty Images.

  • What Does it Take to Bring Offshore Wind to Massachusetts? 

    Elizabeth Turnbull

    Offshore wind could bring cheap power to Massachusetts and help turn the state into a green tech hub. But before the turbines start turning, a variety of stakeholders, including the state’s iconic fishing industry, need to be brought on board.

    A wind farm off Rhode Island's Block Island. Photo: Deepwater Wind.

  • Big Issues: What is Water Worth?

    Julie Zimmerman

    Julie Zimmerman, a professor of green engineering at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Science, joined the Global Leadership: Big Issues class to explore some of the complex issues surrounding water scarcity and its connection to energy and climate.

    People from the Borana tribe by a reservoir in Yabelo, Ethiopia. Photo: Eric Lafforgue/Art In All Of Us/Corbis via Getty Images.

  • Big Issues: It’s Past Time to Decarbonize the Economy

    Doug Kysar

    Professor Douglas Kysar of Yale Law School visited Yale SOM's Global Leadership: Big Issues course to discuss what it will mean to begin grappling with climate change in earnest.

    A wildfire in Malibu, California, in November 2018. Photo: David McNew/Getty Images.

  • Can Green Banks Scale Clean Energy?

    Richard Kauffman

    Richard Kauffman ’83 explains how the New York Green Bank has made possible $1.5 billion in clean energy projects that wouldn’t otherwise have happened.

    Solar panels in New York City

  • Is There Reason for Optimism on Climate Change?

    Daniel C. Esty

    Yale’s Dan Esty points to hopeful signs of progress on a bottom-up response to climate change in the wake of the Paris Agreement.

    Demonstrators in Washington, D.C., during the People's Climate Movement March on April 29, 2017. Photo: Zach Gibson/Bloomberg via Getty Images.

  • Can We Adapt to Climate Change?

    Climate change has the potential to reshape the priorities facing businesses, governments, and societies. Experts look at the key challenges around the world.

  • Should Companies Lead on Sustainability?

    Paul Polman

    Unilever CEO Paul Polman says the company can dramatically shrink its environmental impact while growing profits.

    Should Companies Lead on Sustainability?

  • What’s the Energy Equation?

    Kate Hardin

    What will the world’s use of energy look like in the coming decades, as technological advances revolutionize transportation and push down the price of renewable energy?

  • Can a Positive Impact Be Profitable?

    Indra Nooyi

    PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi ’80 talks about the company’s Performance with Purpose initiative and the evolving role of sustainability.

    Indra Nooyi