29 episodes
Yale Center for Business and the Environment Yale Center for Business and the Environment
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Environmental awareness has become an important strategic focus in the business world. In today's global economy, leading businesses recognize that corporate environmental strategy contributes to competitiveness and shareholder value. The Yale Center for Business and the Environment provides a focal point for research, education, and outreach to advance business solutions to global environmental problems. The Center joins the strengths of two world-renowned graduate schools - the Yale School of Management and the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies - together with a network of internal and external thought leaders at the business-environment interface.
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Voluntary Carbon Markets 101: What they are and how they work
Katherine will speak about voluntary carbon markets, both what they are and how they work with her recent research on market trends, quantifying prices and volumes transacted in the marketplace, and evolving standards.
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Land Use, Forests and Urbanization: The Future of Drinking Water Supplies in New England and New York
Paul Hunt, Environmental Manager for the Portland Water District, Thom Kyker-Snowman, Environmental Analyst for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and Fred Gliesing, Senior Forester for the City of New York, discuss the management and protection of urban water supply systems.
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Effects of Watershed Science and Management on Public and Ecosystem Health
Paul Barten, Associate Professor of Forest Resources at the University of Massachusetts, and co-author of Land Use Effects on Streamflow and Water Quality in the Northeastern United States, discusses the complex world of planning for watersheds and proposes a framework for answering the needs of the environment and the community.
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Lessons from the Voluntary Forest Carbon Markets - How Might they Apply to the Emerging Compliance Markets
Kate Hamilton, Carbon Project Manager at Ecosystem Marketplace, and Edwin Aalders, Director of the International Emissions Trading Association, discuss the development of forest carbon credit standards and their role in emerging compliance markets. The speakers detail the specific methods by which forest carbon credits are demonstrated and measured.
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After the Crunch: The Future of Sustainable Investing and Carbon Finance
Nick Robins, director of HSBC’s Climate Change Centre of Excellence, and Cary Krosinsky, Vice President of Trucost, present the case for long-term, sustainable, socially responsible investing (SRI). They discuss the metrics SRI funds use to make investment decisions and how a marketplace changed by recession and stimulus will influence those decisions in the future.
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Carbon, Forests and Lands: An Investor's Primer
Deborah Spalding, Managing Partner with Working Lands Investment Partners, LLC, providing an introduction to land investing and carbon markets from an investor’s perspective. Ms. Spalding discuss traditional and emerging markets for carbon and notes the differences between voluntary and compliance-based schemes. Finally, she notes the challenges faced by land investors and credits buyers, and ties these concepts together through a sample investment project.