A Letter from Singapore

Professor Esty with his Climate Change and the Future of Energy class at the Singapore Building Construction Authority’s ‘Skylab.'

By: Laura Brush, Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy, Communications Team, March 2, 2018

Center Director Professor Dan Esty traveled to Singapore earlier this year to spend several weeks as a visiting lecturer at the Yale-NUS College. Esty spent the first half of the spring 2018 semester teaching, while also engaging with scholars and stakeholders at events across Singapore to explore issues related to international climate change law and policy.

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Center Hosts Workshop on Trade and Climate Change

Trade and Climate Change workshop attendees

 

Lucy Kessler, Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy

Last year, global trade accounted for 60% of world Gross Domestic Product. However, in addition to contributing to GDP, the global trade regime is also responsible for a wide array of environmental impacts–including natural resource damages, pollution and climate change. 

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Protecting the environment in the Trump era

Esty calls for action at the local level

Dan Esty, former state environmental protection commissioner and a Yale professor, speaks to the Aspetuck Land Trust about the Trump administration’s impact on environmental policies. — Brad Durrell photo 

Dan Esty, former state environmental protection commissioner and a Yale professor, speaks to the Aspetuck Land Trust about the Trump era impact on environmental policies. — Brad Durrell photo

By Brad Durrell (Easton Courier) on November 21, 2017

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