U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern, who has led the United States in global climate talks since 2009, will address domestic and international efforts to mitigate the threat of global climate change during a public speech at Yale on Tuesday,...
New Yale-led research reveals for the first time what the world thinks about climate change and why.Using data from the 2007-2008 Gallup World Poll, conducted in 119 countries, an international team of researchers identified the factors that most...
A new Yale-led study estimates that there are more than 3 trillion trees on Earth, about seven and a half times more than some previous estimates. But the total number of trees has plummeted by roughly 46% since the start of human civilization, the study...
More than 600 major companies — from BP to Microsoft — have adopted carbon-pricing programs to spur energy conservation and control their carbon emissions. But the effectiveness of these efforts has not been analyzed or publicly reported.
An article...
On Monday night, during an online vigil to honor and remember Kevin Jiang, a Yale School of the Environment (YSE) student killed on Feb. 6, Jiang’s faculty advisor described him as the most efficient researcher he’d ever worked with at Yale — a voracious...
In 2017, Yale launched a first-of-its kind program to explore the effectiveness of putting a price tag on carbon emissions — and it used the university campus as a laboratory.
To encourage energy-saving policies and behaviors on campus, the Yale Carbon...
In 2020 Yale University unveiled an ambitious new initiative, Yale Planetary Solutions (YPS), that unites leadership and experts across campus, and across disciplines, to advance solutions to the greatest environmental challenges facing the planet.