On The Environment

On The Environment


Latest Episodes

Michael Méndez: Climate Policy and the Environmental Justice Movement
March 29, 2021

Climate change is fundamentally about people. In California, environmental justice activists have galvanized around human impacts of climate actionsuch as air pollution, poverty alleviation, and gree

Hana Vizcarra: Climate Risk and Wall Street
January 25, 2021

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 Schools Environmenta

Aisha Saad: Improving Corporate Sustainability Reporting
December 22, 2020

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 i

Sue Biniaz: The Future of International Climate Cooperation
November 02, 2020

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 fo

Tatiana Schlossberg: The Hidden Impacts of our Consumption
October 26, 2020

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) t

Amanda Maxwell: Capital, Resilience, and Trade in Latin America
February 25, 2020

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, clim

Kelly Levin on Global Climate Policy
November 18, 2019

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 carbo

Barry Hill: The Constitutional Right to a Healthy Environment
July 30, 2019

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 E

Thomas Lovejoy: Biodiversity on a Changing Planet
May 09, 2019

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 (

Commissioner of Connecticut DEEP Katie Dykes
April 18, 2019

Katie Dykes, the Commissioner of Connecticuts Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, joins Alix Kashdan (FES 20) and Liz Bourguet (FES 20) during the Yale Environmental Dialogue to talk