Topics / Global Change Science and Policy
Foundations to Discuss Funding to Combat Climate Change
On Wednesday, Feb. 20, representatives from four leading private foundations will discuss how their organizations have helped fund and create
Doctoral Student's Research Featured on NPR
Jennifer Balch is part of a research team using experimental burns to study the effects of fire in the transitional forests of Brazil.Ecology Letters
Long-term reproductive behaviour of woody plants across seven Bornean forest types in the Gunung Palung National Park (Indonesia): suprannual synchrony, temporal productivity and fruiting diversity
Environment: Yale, Spring 2007
The Journal of the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies - Spring 2007 IssueCarbon trading won�t work
Originally in the LA Times earlier this month... Carbon trading won’t work Experiments with the market scheme favored by Schwarzenegger shows trading favors big polluters without curbing global warming gases. By Michael K. Dorsey MICHAEL K. DORSEY, assistant professor on…SAGE Magazine Volume II, Issue I
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Energy security from a environmental policy & governance perspective - Sascha Müller-Kraenner (TNC)
Sascha Müller-Kraenner is Senior Policy Adviser and the European representative to The Nature Conservancy, a leading international conservation organisation with over one million members and supporters as well as programmes in 30 countries. From 2003-2006, Sascha Müller-Kraenner served as the…SAGE Magazine Volume I, Issue II
This is SAGE's second magazine. For more information contact sagemagazine@yale.eduField Notes from a Catastrophe: Discussion with Elizabeth Kolbert
"Field Notes From a Catastrophe: Man, Nature & Climate Change" Master's Tea with Elizabeth Kolbert February 8, 2007 at 4 pm Saybrook Master's House, 90 High Street This Master's Tea is a discussion with Elizabeth Kolbert, staff writer for the…Communicating Climate Change: Approaches and Strategies for Reaching the Public
Communicating Climate Change: Approaches and Strategies for Reaching the Public Wednesday, January 24, 4 pm Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue This panel discussion will feature the perspectives of Andrew Revkin, Science reporter for the New York Times and author…
Diamonds and Development
As moviegoers flock to view the new Hollywood blockbuster "Blood Diamond," the Kalahari San people of Africa's largest diamond producer, Botswana have just won a major judicial victory. Unlike Sierra Leonne, where the film is based, Botswana and its inhabitants…
The Inconvenience of Science (with an afterword about the Nobel Prize for Gore)
The following review was written before the Nobel Prize announcement on October 12, 2007. While there is much to admire about his activism, the Nobel committee has just politicized the debate further by giving the prize to Gore. The IPCC…
A Climate of Conflict
As the twelfth round of climate change negotiations wrapped up in Nairobi in November, 2006, the rhetoric on climate change got more intense. The debate has been increasingly polarized by interest groups that continue to challenge each other's credibility amidst…
Minding our Minerals
Almost a year has passed since the Sago mine tragedy in West Virginia that claimed the lives of twelve miners. Since then, accusations of lax enforcement have been made against mineral companies and the U.S. Mining Safety and Health Administration…
Interactive Map: Climate Change and GDP
Professor Robert Mendelsohn's study, "Dynamic Forecasts of the Sectoral Impacts of Climate Change," utilizes results from climate impact analyses to project how future climate scenarios will affect each country in the world. The study has looked at the impacts on…YPCC convenes meeting to discuss Climate Change Science Bridging Institution
On Nov 9, 2006 the YPCC convened a meeting in New York City to discuss a potential Climate Change Science Bridging Institution. 40 experts gathered from around the country to discuss how to convey the most important findings of climate…Zoom: the Race to Fuel the Car of the Future
Please join The Economist's Global Correspondent, Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran, for his talk - Zoom: The Race to Fuel the Car of the Future. Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran is The Economist's Global Correspondent, covering developments in politics, economics, business, and technology as…Water & Sanitation Symposium meeting
Please join us for the discussion on the development of a FES Water and Sanitation Symposium for Spring 2007. Janine M.H. Selendy, Chairman and President, Horizon International, Yale University, will lead and present ideas for the proposed symposium which will…Entrepreneurship as a tool for sustainable international development
Interested in entrepreneurship as a tool for sustainable international development? Come learn about The Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group with Benny Lee, Education and Outreach Director Wednesday, November 29th, 6:30 – 8:00 pm SOM Room A 46. Pizza provided. Roughly 2…China and the Environment: The Impact of NGOs, Culture and Growth
Bowers Auditorium, Sage Hall 205 Prospect St., New Haven Xiaoyi (Sheri) Liao, the Chinese environmental ambassador to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Committee and one of China’s best-known environmental activists and journalists, founded and is president of the Global Village of…Thomas Friedman and Addicted to Oil Screening
Thomas Friedman, of the New York Times, will screen his new Discovery documentary "Addicted to Oil." Following the screening, he will lead a discussion of the interwoven issues of oil, the Middle East, and the global environment. This event will…Courses
Current Courses School of Management MGT 820b: Energy Markets Strategy In the past 30 years, energy markets have changed from quiet, often heavily regulated, areas of the business landscape to the some of most dynamic markets in the world economy.…Selected Publications
Recent publications in peer-reviewed economics journals “Do Oligopolists Pollute Less? Evidence from a Restructured Electricity Market,”Journal of Industrial Economics, forthcoming. Â “Upstream Competition and Vertical Integration in Electricity Markets,” Journal of Law and Economics, forthcoming in Volume 50, Issue 1,…
Program to Train Corporate Directors on Climate Change
Three leading U.S. organizations have announced a unique collaborative effort to educate hundreds of independent corporate board members about the potential liabilities and strategic business opportunities that global climate change can create for companies. The announcement was made at a…Liming effects on riverine bicarbonate export
Chemical weathering of silicates and carbonates is essential in the global cycles of many elements, including carbon. Chemical weathering affects regional and global carbon budgets through the export of bicarbonate, much of which can originate from the atmosphere. Agricultural practices…Global Warming Radio Interview
I was a guest on the Faith Middleton Show on WNPR, Connecticut Public Radio, discussing global warming. Listen to the showWhy Climate Change Belongs on the Front Burner in the Business World
Mindy Lubber, president of Ceres, discusses the emerging importance of climate change to major corporations, investors, shareholders, etc. Video (48 minutes).Video: Eileen Claussen
Eileen Claussen, president of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, spoke at the school on the state and national policy response to climate change science. 45 minutes.Seen An Inconvenient Truth – Now What?
Sage Hall Bowers Auditorium 205 Prospect St. New Haven, CT Eban Goodstein, Professor of Economics, Lewis & Clark College, and organizer of Focus the Nation: A Global Warming Educational Initiative (www.focusthenation.org/test.html) Goodstein’s talk is sponsored by the Yale F&ES Project…More Inconvenient Truths ... What We Must Do Now
Thanks to excellent media coverage based on first-rate science, a resurgent Al Gore and the impresarial genius of producer Laurie David, the U. S. public may have turned an important corner in acknowledging global warming as a real and serious…II Latin American Congress of National Parks and Other Protected Areas
Please visit http://www.congresolatinoparques2007.org�, or http://www.rlc.fao.org/redes/parques/congreso� for more information. The first Latin American Congress was held nine years ago, and its quality was amazing. A great place to create partnerships and networks.Galvanizing National Action on Climate Change
Editor’s Note:Last October, F&ES convened 110 leaders and thinkers from across the United States in Aspen, Colo., to address one of the greatest practical and intellectual challenges of our time – climate change. One result is a newly published report,…SAGE Magazine Volume I, Issue I
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Young Conservationists and the Future of Protected Areas Worldwide
32 pages, 2003 Order a print copy
Protecting Biodiversity
Elizabeth A.Gordon, Oscar E.Franco and Mary L.Tyrrell Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies 168 pages, 2005 Order a print copy
Can the Anchor Hold?
Maria Ivanova Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies This new report assesses the performance of UNEP as the mandated anchor insitution for the global environment. Focusing on strenghthening the global environmental governance…
Livability and Smart Growth
Hooper Brooks and Julia Parzen 118 pages, 2006 Order a print copy
Environmental Planning in Sub-Saharan Africa
John O.Kakonge Associate Research Scholar 43 pages, 2006 Order a print copy
Inventory and Analysis of Yale University’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions
The Yale Climate Initiative (YCI) team Marco Buttazzoni, Kathleen Campbell, Brandon Carter, Seth Dunn, Trish Eyler, Woon Kwong Liew, Elizabeth Martin, Nalin Sahni and Kate Zyla 106 pages, 2005 Order a print copyClimate Change Project Seeks Participants
Why has the robust and compelling body of climate change science not had a greater impact on action, especially in the United States? Visit the Yale Environment School Project on Climate Change site to find out how to help implement…
Americans and Climate Change
By Daniel R. Abbasi With a Foreword by James Gustave Speth In 2005 the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies convened 110 leaders and thinkers in Aspen, Colorado, and asked them to diagnose the reasons for the gap between…Global Change Science and Policy
The goal of this focal area is to address issues arising from major environmental changes that are impacting a substantial portion of the world. The faculty in this focal area are particularly interested in the arena of climate change science…
Red Sky at Morning
Order a copySelected Publications
"Environmental Protection in the Information Age," NYU Law Review 79:1, 115-211 (2004). "The World Trade Organization's Legitimacy Crisis," World Trade Review, vol. 1, no. 1 (2002). "Bridging the Trade-Environment Divide," Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 15, no. 3 (2001). "Regulatory…Study: Not Enough Metals in Earth to Meet Global Demand
New Haven, Conn. – Researchers studying supplies of copper, zinc and other metals have determined that these finite resources, even if recycled, may not meet the needs of the global population forever, according to a study published today in the…
Climate Change and Development
Luis Gómez-Echeverri, Editor Order a print copy. A collaborative publication of the UNDP Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean and the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.
