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The latest blog posts from our research projects.
Press release – Scaling Up: From Local to Global Climate Action
Paris, 5 December 2015 - R20 Founder and former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Yale University, and the Stanley Foundation, in collaboration with the R20 and USC Schwarzenegger Institute, released “ScalingUp:From Local to Global Climate Action.” This...
December 5 Workshop: Mapping the State of Non-State and Sub-National Climate Action Research
The start of the Paris Conference of the Parties (COP-21) marks a turning point not just for international climate negotiations, but also for the growing number of cities, states, regions, businesses, and investors taking climate action. These sub-national and...
Data-Driven Yale at COP-21
Several expert researchers from Yale’s Data-Driven Environmental Solutions Group (Data-Driven Yale) will be attending the Paris COP-21 Climate negotiations from November 30-December 12. Here is a list of the events our group will be engaged in: Friday, December 4...
Analyzing Non-State and Sub-national Climate Pledges in NAZCA and the LPAA
Our report, "State of Play: Contextualising Non-State and Sub-National Actors Climate Pledges Through NAZCA and the LPAA," was launched today, Dec. 4, at the COP-21 Paris Climate Conference. View the Press Conference. Press release Yale_NAZCAStateofPlayMemo_Dec4...
Measuring Urban Sustainability in Seoul, South Korea
Exploring urban sustainability data and metrics in Seoul, South Korea. What can data tell us about building greener cities? What sustainability indicators can be compared city-to-city? By Alisa Zomer, MEM'14, EPI Manager The Seoul subway has 18 train lines and over...
Meet Yaping Cheng
Yaping graduated this spring from Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES) with a specialization in business and the environment. Her work tries to address pressing resource and pollution issues through business solutions. Prior to Yale, Yaping...
What Would New Breakthroughs on Climate Change Mean for the U.S.-China Relationship? A ChinaFile Conversation
U.S. President Barack Obama (L) and China's President Xi Jinping reach out to shake hands at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on November 12, 2014. Photo by Mandel Ngan—AFP/Getty Images, originally posted on ChinaFile. Originally posted on ChinaFile, on...
Liveability Ranking Ignores the Environment
This post originally appeared on The Huffington Post. Beijing, the most liveable city in China? "The best joke all year," said Weibo user Ren Fei. Not intended as a joke, Beijing emerged as the most liveable Chinese city in the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)'s 2015...
Meet Danny Macri, Our New Fellow
The Environmental Performance Index and the Yale Data-Driven Environmental Solutions Group are pleased to introduce Danny Macri as one of its new Research Fellows. Sponsored by the CT Green Bank, Danny will investigate how municipality level policies can drive residential solar PV installations.
How Dirty is Your Air? This Map Shows You
This map was originially featured in the Atlantic's City Lab and the article appeared in Grist. President Obama’s > Clean Power Plan, released this week, is arguably the most ambitious effort ever untaken by the U.S. to fight climate change....
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