The Earth Times Honors Yale Environmentalist Daniel Esty

The Earth Times, an international environmental publication offering news and views on the environment, sustainable development, population and current affairs, recently named Daniel C. Esty, director of the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy, among the world’s 100 most influential people in environmental policy. Calling him an important “change agent,” the publication recognized Esty as “incredibly influential in shaping and otherwise solving the grave issues of the environment and sustainable development.”

The Earth Times, which has served as the newspaper of record at major world conferences on the environment and sustainable development since the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, is distributed worldwide by the Los Angeles Times Syndicate and also by the New York Times Syndicate.

Esty is an expert on environmental law and policy with appointments in the Yale Law School and the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. A Yale-trained lawyer, he served in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from 1989-93 as special assistant to EPA Administrator William Reilly, deputy chief of staff of the EPA, and deputy assistant administrator for the EPA’s Office of Policy, Planning and Evaluation.

Author of the widely acclaimed book, “Greening the GATT: Trade, Environment and the Future,” Esty advocates better coordination between efforts to promote trade liberalization and environmental protection. In addition to organizing the “Next Generation Project,” a broad-based environmental policy reform initiative launched three years ago at Yale with the aim of creating a new framework for environmental policy, he recent co-edited “Thinking Ecologically: The Next Generation of Environmental Policy” (New Haven: Yale University Press) with Marian Chertow.

Esty’s research and policy work touches on a variety of areas, including the critical role of foreign investment and private capital flows in supporting sustainable development, the links between environmental performance and international security, global environmental policymaking, the environmental impacts of development (with a special focus on China specifically and Asia in general), and designing environmental protection programs for developing countries.