Episodes
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Michael Méndez: Climate Policy and the Environmental Justice Movement
Climate change is fundamentally about people. In California, environmental justice activists have galvanized around human impacts of climate action—such as air pollution, poverty alleviation, and green jobs—to build a policy response that focuses on local communities and public health. Dr.…
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Hana Vizcarra: Climate Risk and Wall Street
U.S. financial regulators lag behind other countries in requiring corporations to disclose their financial risks from climate change. Hana Vizcarra, staff attorney at Harvard Law School’s Environmental & Energy Law Program, joins Charles Harper (YSE ’22) to discuss the financial sector, climate...
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Aisha Saad: Improving Corporate Sustainability Reporting
Aisha Saad, a Fellow of the Program on Corporate Governance at Harvard Law School, joins Jhena Vigrass (YSE ’22) to discuss the current challenges of corporate sustainability reporting and investing in ESG funds. Aisha contributed to the recently released book, Values at Work: Sustainable…
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Sue Biniaz: The Future of International Climate Cooperation
Sue Biniaz, a lecturer at Yale Law School and former lead climate lawyer for the U.S. State Department, joins Jhena Vigrass (YSE ’22) and Charles Harper (YSE ’22) to discuss what might lie in store for the Paris Agreement and international climate cooperation after the U.S. election in November.
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Tatiana Schlossberg: The Hidden Impacts of our Consumption
Tatiana Schlossberg, an award-winning journalist and author of Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have, joins Jhena Vigrass (YSE ’22) and Charles Harper (YSE ’22) to talk about individual consumption and action on climate change.
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Amanda Maxwell: Capital, Resilience, and Trade in Latin America
Amanda Maxwell, Director of the Latin America Project at the Natural Resources Defense Council, recently spoke with Alix Kashdan (FES '20). Amanda discussed sustainable capital for Latin America, climate change challenges in the region, and challenges and opportunities in North American trade.
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Kelly Levin on Global Climate Policy
Kelly Levin, senior associate with World Resources Institute’s global climate program, spoke with Alix Kashdan (FES ’20) and Liz Bourguet (FES ’20) during the Yale Carbon Removal Symposium about carbon removal, global climate policy, and her work at World Resources Institute.
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Barry Hill: The Constitutional Right to a Healthy Environment
Barry Hill, a visiting scholar at the Environmental Law Institute and an adjunct professor of law at Vermont Law School - as well as the former Director of the Office of Environmental Justice at the EPA - joins Alix Kashdan (FES ‘20) and Liz Bourguet (FES ‘20) to talk about the constitutional…
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Thomas Lovejoy: Biodiversity on a Changing Planet
Thomas Lovejoy, university professor in the Environmental Science and Policy department at George Mason University and dedicated conservation biologist, joins Alix Kashdan (FES '20) and Liz Bourguet (FES '20) to talk about the importance of biodiversity in the face of climate change.
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Commissioner of Connecticut DEEP Katie Dykes
Katie Dykes, the Commissioner of Connecticut’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, joins Alix Kashdan (FES ’20) and Liz Bourguet (FES ’20) during the Yale Environmental Dialogue to talk about her new role as Commissioner, including her energy goals for the state and what she is…
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Country Delegations at COP24
FES students Camila Rodriguez Taylor (FES '19) and Tobias Daros (FES and SOM '20) describe their experiences working on country delegations at the UN Climate Conference in Poland in December 2018.
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William K Reilly: Exploring Federal Environmental Policy
William K Reilly, former Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, joins Liz Bourguet (FES ’20) and Alix Kashdan (FES ’20) to speak about the federal government and why he's hopeful about climate change.
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Paul Rink: Inside Juliana v. United States
Paul Rink, a joint degree student at Yale Law School and Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and former summer law clerk at Our Children’s Trust, joins Liz Bourguet (FES ’20) and Alix Kashdan (FES ’20) to speak about Juliana v United States, the landmark youth climate lawsuit...
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Bridget Burns and Emilia Reyes: The Intersection of Gender and International Climate Policy
Bridget Burns, Director of the Women's Environment and Development Organization, and Emilia Reyes, Coordinator of Gender Policies and Budgets at Equidad de Género, speak about the intersection of gender and climate change, their roles in international climate change negotiations, and what they...
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Sue Biniaz: What to Expect at COP 24
Sue Biniaz, former lead climate lawyer and negotiator for the United States, speaks with Alix Kashdan (FES '20) about her expectations for the UN Climate Conference (COP 24) in Poland next month.
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James Cameron: Climate Negotiations and Policy
James Cameron, former climate change negotiator and advisor to the Presidencies of two UN climate conferences, spoke with Alix Kashdan (FES ‘20) and Liz Bourguet (FES ‘20) about his history working on climate negotiations and what he anticipates for the future of climate policy.
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Laurent Fabius: The President of France’s Constitutional Council on International Environmental Law
Laurent Fabius, President of the French Constitutional Council, visited Yale in September 2018. Alix Kashdan (FES ‘20) spoke with President Fabius about several issues facing global environmental law today, including his vision to strengthen the legal links between national climate pledges and...
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A Conversation with Diane Strauss from the Yale Initiative on Sustainable Finance
Diane Strauss, Program Director of the Yale Initiative on Sustainable Finance, joins Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy Research Assistant Laura Brush to discuss the Initiative's work to further research on collaborative approaches to innovation in sustainable finance. Diane describes…
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20th Anniversary of the Environmental Performance Index
The 2018 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) ranks 180 countries on 24 performance indicators across ten issue categories covering environmental health and ecosystem vitality. These metrics provide a gauge at a national scale of how close countries are to established environmental policy goals....
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Incentives for Climate Solutions: Clean Energy Tax Cuts
YCELP Communications Research Assistant Lucy Kessler sits down with Rod Richardson, President of the Grace Richardson Fund, to discuss Clean Energy Tax Cuts and other market-driven solutions to pressing public policy challenges.
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Red Lights to Green Lights: 20th Century Environmental Regulation to 21st Century Sustainability
Professor Daniel C. Esty sits down with YCELP Research Assistant Lucy Kessler to discuss his new law review article and his argument for a 21st century approach to environmental law that builds on the successes of the 20th century command-and-control approach but integrates advances in data and...
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The Public Power of Private Law: a Conversation with Arden Shenker
Attorney Arden Shenker joins Yale Law School student Conor Dwyer Reynolds in the studio to discuss the power of private lawsuits in public environmental policy, with a specific focus on the 1963 case Renken v. Harvey Aluminum.
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A Conversation with Robert Sussman
Former EPA deputy administrator and guest lecturer in the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies Bob Sussman joins Emma Crow-Willard to discuss the Clean Power Plan. The Clean Power Plan is the first federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions from electricity generating power…
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Nuclear Energy Post Paris Agreement: A Conversation with Christine Todd Whitman
Former New Jersey Governor and US Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Christine Todd Whitman joins Stephanie Ratte, a student at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, for a conversation about the role of nuclear energy after the 2015 Paris Agreement.
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The Keystone XL Pipeline in a Post-COP21 World: A Conversation with Liz Barratt-Brown
Liz Barratt-Brown, Senior Advisor to NRDC & Executive Committee member of the Yale Law School, joins Catherine Martini for a conversation about Barratt-Brown's career working on the Toxic Release Inventory, the Keystone XL Pipeline, international climate negotiations, and organic olive oil…
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Litigating for the Environment: A Conversation with Deborah Goldberg
Deborah Goldberg, the managing attorney for the Northeast office of Earthjustice sits down with Melissa Legge to discuss environmental litigation, climate change, environmental justice, and the unusual twists and turns of her own career from academic to litigator.
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The Bureaucrat in Western American History
Dr. Patty Limerick, Faculty Director and Chair of the Board of the Center of the American West at the University of Colorado Boulder and professor of environmental studies and history, joins Stephanie Ratte, a student at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, for a conversation…
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Tribal Environmental Justice: A Conversation with Jim Grijalva
Eugene Rusyn, YLS '17, sits down in the studio with Professor Jim Grijalva to discuss environmental law on Indian lands. Professor Grijalva is an expert in federal Indian law, environmental law, and environmental justice and is the director of the Tribal Environmental Law Project at the…
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The Environment and the Energy Industry: A Conversation with Jennifer McIvor
Jennifer McIvor, Vice President of Environmental at MidAmerican Energy speaks with Becky Gallagher about the various environmental issues that energy companies face. While climate change dominates the conversation, companies like MidAmerican are also working to clean up water, protect endangered...
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Public Environmental Law in Private Practice: A Conversation with Edan Rotenberg
Edan Rotenberg, a partner at the Super Law Group, joins Joya Sonnenfeldt a dual degree student at Yale Law School and the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies for a conversation about protecting the environment through private environmental law practice. Edan tells Joya about the…
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Public Interest Environmental Litigation: A Conversation with Earthjustice's Abbie Dillen
Abbie Dillen, Vice President of Litigation for Climate and Energy at Earthjustice joins Melissa Legge in the studio to discuss public interest environmental litigation as a tool to make broader changes in environmental governance in the public and private sectors.
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40 Years of Environmental Leadership: An Interview with Frances Beinecke
Frances Beinecke joins Melissa Legge of Yale Law School and Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies for a conversation about the past, present, and future of the environmental movement. Frances has been involved in environmentalism for 40 years, all of that with the Natural Resources...
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Strategic Environmental Communications: A Conversation with Francesca Koe
Francesca Koe, a communications specialist, joins Josh Galperin in the studio to talk about strategic environmental communications. Francesca is the former Director of Campaigns and Strategic Initiatives at the Natural Resources Defense Council where she continues to consult for NRDC's Climate...
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A Conversation With Hans Bruyninckx
Hans Bruyninckx, the Executive Director of the European Environment Agency, discusses his work toward a low carbon economy in Europe. He explores the upcoming UNFCCC meeting in Paris, and considers the role of Europe in climate change policy.
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Toward a New Pyschology of Climate Action: A Conversation with Per Espen Stoknes
Dr. Per Espen Stoknes discusses the misunderstood science of climate psychology and overcoming psychological barriers so we can act meaningfully together to build bottom-up support for climate policy. His new book is What We Think About When We Try Not to Think About Global Warming: Toward a New...
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Finding Agency Through Humility: Authors Zellmer and Klein Discuss Unnatural Disasters and Law
Christine Klein, the Chesterfield Smith Professor of at the University of Florida Levin College of Law and Sandra Zellmer, the Robert Daugherty Professor at the University of Nebraska Law College, discuss the environmental and social implications of decades of American engineering along the...
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Opportunity in Risk: Kate Gordon on California’s Environmental Policy Innovation
Kate Gordon leads the Energy & Climate team at Next Generation. In this episode, she talks about the promising signs of change in US climate and energy policy, with a special focus on the innovations emerging from California. There’s increasing public and private investment in transforming...
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A Way to the Good Life: Political Scientist Matt Hoffman Discusses Climate Negotiation
In this episode, Matt Hoffman, a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto, talks about potential routes toward decarbonization, the process of weaning societies from fossil fuels. His work suggests that the role of international climate negotiations in the...
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Bringing the Giants to the Table: Glenn Hurowitz on Deforestation and Agricultural Supply Chains
In this episode Glenn Hurowitz speaks on his pathbreaking work in eliminating both environmental and social injustices that pervade the world's biggest, most entrenched agricultural supply chains. Glenn is the managing director of Climate Advisors where he has taken the international lead on…
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The Human Right to Water: a Conversation with Mathias Risse
In this podcast Mathias Risse, professor of philosophy and public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, discusses his recent paper, "The Human Right to Water and Common Ownership of the Earth" which posits that humanity's shared possession of our planet provides a philosophical...
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From Idea to Reality: How to Structure Success
In this podcast, Christopher Sawyer -- a partner with Alston & Bird, a law firm specializing in corporate governance, real estate and conservation law -- discusses the body of skills necessary to transform ideas into a lasting positive community reality.
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"The Future is Performance": A Conversation with Salvatore Iaconesi and Oriana Persico
In this episode Oriana Persico and Salvatore Iaconesi, both teachers of digital design at La Sapienza University of Rome, discuss what the near future is, how they study it, and what implications of designing the near future has for natural resource companies such as Shell. They help listeners...
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Protecting Pakistan: A Conversation with Environmental Lawyer and Activist Rafay Alam
In this episode, Rafay Alam, an environmental lawyer and activist in Lahore, Pakistan, speaks about the social and economic challenges the government faces in addressing endemic environmental issues. Much of the conversation revolves around problems with poverty and access to natural resources…
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Climate and Agriculture: a Conversation with Peter Lehner
In this podcast Peter Lehner, executive director of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), discusses agriculture -- both NRDC's work on the issue and his own experiences as a coffee and sugar cane grower in Costa Rica -- high-impact climate litigation, and career planning.
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Sacred Earth: a Conversation with Dekila Chungyalpa
In this podcast WWF's Dekila Chungyalpa, discusses the organization's Sacred Earth program, which engages religious leaders and faith communities as stakeholders in the organization's work. Religious leaders, Chungyalpa says, have long been the missing piece of conservation. Scientists often want...
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Grasslands, Compost and Climate Change Mitigation: a Conversation with Whendee Silver
In this podcast, Whendee Silver, Yale F&ES '97 (PhD) and professor of ecosystem ecology at U.C. Berkeley, outlines how the use of composted organic material (agricultural and green waste) on rangeland soils can increase carbon storage and decrease greenhouse gas emissions.
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From Forest to Farmland and Moraine to Meadow: When did the Anthropocene Begin?
The start date for what scientists call the Anthropocene - the era in which human activities begin to have a significant global impact on Earth's ecosystems - varies widely. Some researchers point to the industrial revolution, others look much further back. In this podcast Jed Kaplan, of the...
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Examining the Cultural Meaning of Place: a Conversation with Elizabeth Barlow Rogers
In this podcast Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, president of the Foundation for Landscape Studies and founding president of the Central Park Conservancy, discusses her work as a landscape design historian and a writer examining the cultural meaning of place.
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Building a Social Network for Climate Action: a Conversation with Alexander Verbeek
In this podcast Yale World Fellow Alexander Verbeek, strategic policy advisory on global issues at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, discusses how to build an robust social network — and how to use it effectively to communicate key issues and build a global community.
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An Integrated Approach to Climate Action: a Conversation with Alexander Verbeek
In this podcast Yale World Fellow Alexander Verbeek, strategic policy advisory on global issues at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, discusses how we might address some of the most critical environmental issues with an integrated approach that has governments working together…
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