Center Hosts Workshop on Trade and Climate Change
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.
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 era impact on environmental policies. — Brad Durrell photo
By Brad Durrell (Easton Courier) on November 21, 2017
Former EPA chief McCarthy: ‘We are living in incredibly uncertain times’
Yale's Dan Esty and former EPA chief Gina McCarthy spoke Nov. 4 at the Yale Environmental Sustainability Summit. (Photo by Annie Guo)
Jim Shelton (Yale News)
November 8, 2017
Gina McCarthy, the former head of the Environmental Protection Agency during the Obama administration, says people aren’t sure what to say to her these days, considering the state of America’s environmental agenda under President Donald Trump.
Putting value on carbon can lower energy use, campus experiment shows
A lounge space in Kroon Hall, home of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.
Kevin Dennehy (Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies)
November 3, 2017
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.
