Current Climate Moment: The Movement toward Deep Decarbonization
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- About the Professor
Dan Esty is the Hillhouse Professor at Yale University with primary appointments in the Yale Environment School and the Law School and a secondary appointment at the Yale School of Management. He also serves as Director of the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy and on the advisory board of the Yale Center for Business and the Environment, which he founded in 2006. Professor Esty is the author or editor of thirteen books (including the prizewinning guide to corporate sustainability, Green to Gold) and dozens of articles on environmental and energy policy -- and their connections to regulatory approaches, corporate strategy, sustainability performance measurement, competitiveness, trade, and economic success. His recent (edited) volume, A Better Planet: 40 Big Ideas for a Sustainable Future, was named a top book of 2019 by The Financial Times. From 1989-93, Professor Esty served in a number of senior positions in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
This edited book presents information to help readers be better able to identify and address the hurdles to moving mainstream capital toward more sustainable companies, investments, and projects.
Climate change represents a profound policy challenge to America and the world – requiring a response at a sweeping scale and with unprecedented speed centered on remaking the energy foundations of our society.
Our central idea is that for the next phase of the environmental law revolution, the goal of environmental protection efforts should be to internalize all negative environmental externalities — which for simplicity’s sake we dub the end to externalities approach.
Capitalism and sustainability are on a collision course, one that threatens to destroy both the market system and the planet. To head off the impending crash, we must end environmental externalities and make polluters pay for the harm they cause.
90-MINUTE WEBINAR
September 14, 2021
4:00 p.m. ET
Faculty:
David Meyers ’99 MBA