Environment - Lectures

Kaveh Madani is a Henry Hart Rice Senior Fellow at the MacMillan Center. He is an environmental scientist, educator, and activist, who works at the interface of science, policy, and society. He previously served as deputy head of Iran's Department of Environment and is known for his role in raising public awareness about water and environmental problems there. Learn more about Kaveh Madani . February 26, 2020

Leah C. Stokes, Assistant Professor of Political Science and an affiliate with the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management and the Environmental Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), discusses her book,Short Circuiting Policy: Interest Groups and the Battle Over Clean Energy and Climate Policy in the American States(New York: Oxford University Press, 2020), and shares her unique perspective on being a public-facing scholar engaged in crucial debates over climate change and energy policy. Yale Lecturer and Postdoctoral Associate John Dearborn moderates. This event was sponsored by The Policy Lab at the Yale Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS).

In the quest for net-zero global carbon emissions, will advances in technology suffice or must we make hard decisions that affect economic growth? And if the traditional methods of growth must drastically change, what should we ask of rich and poor countries? In climate negotiations, lower-income countries have long asserted that they are being asked to sacrifice economic development for a problem largely caused by rich, industrialized nations. Today, Western countries set bold emission targets, even as they continue to import goods manufactured in developing countries at a high environmental cost. And countries like India may increase reliance on coal to help mitigate the economic devastation caused by the coronavirus pandemic – even as they set targets for renewable energy production. How will the economic relationships between developed and developing countries influence the path of climate change? What policies are necessary? And when policy fails, what can citizens do to help redu

Join Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry and Yale President Peter Salovey as they discuss climate change and US climate policy. The conversation focused on the goals for the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasglow in November 2021, the importance of private capital and the momentum of the marketplace, what students and young people can do to influence climate policy and the importance of student activism for the climate movement, how to bridge political divides, and where to focus research at Yale with the recent gift from Fedex to fund a new center focused on developing natural solutions for reducing atmospheric carbon as part of Yale’s broader Planetary Solutions Project. Climate Day is presented by Yale Institute forBiosphericStudies in partnership with Yale Planetary Solutions Project, Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, Yale School of the Environment, Yale School of Engineering and Applied Science, Yale School of Public Health.

Scholars, writers, and policymakers from Shakespeare to Obama have noted linkages between the physical environment and human behavior toward one another. Professor Marshall Burke synthesizes a growing cottage industry of research that seeks to quantitatively measure how changes in climate can affect various types of human conflict. For other videos in this series, please visit the Refugee Program Seminars playlist •RefugeeProgramSeminars For more information and to learn more about the Yale Refugee Program, please visit Yale MacMillan Center Program on Refugees

Yolanda Kakabadse, Former President of World Wildlife Fund International (WWF) spoke on the topic of 'The Impact of Climate Change in Latin America’ as part of theLatin American Policy Leaders series.This series is generously supported by the George Herbert Walker, Jr. Lecture Fund in International Studies at the Yale MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies and is co-sponsored by the Yale MacMillan Center’s Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies, Fox International Fellowship, Program on Peace and Development, and the Yale Office of International Affairs. To learn more about Yale and Latin America, please visit our website: This event is in Spanish. Please click the CC button for English translation.

Ki-Moon Ban, the eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations, gave the annual Coca-Cola World Fund at Yale Lecture on Tuesday, May 3, 2022. The title of his talk is “Covid-19, Climate Change and Carbon Neutrality.” The lecture is sponsored by the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies and the Council on East Asian Studies.

It was early spring, nearly 15 years ago, when Belén Delgado made the discovery of a lifetime. As a fisherman in rural Mexico, Belén had a hunch that a giant bank of Callo de Hacha, a rare and incredibly expensive shellfish, lay just off the shore of his small coastal town. Together with friends, he hired a diver to plunge 70 feet below the surface, and when he emerged, the diver confirmed Belén’s suspicion. “Wherever you step,” he said, “there’s callo.” The colony of Callo de Hacha covered 30 miles of ocean floor and was worth millions of dollars. This was the financial windfall the town desperately needed, but Belén wasn’t prepared for the chaos and greed that soon followed as his fellow fishermen succumbed to the “White Gold Fever.”

The seminar by David Lönnberg and Sarah Rosengaertner unpacks the efforts of the Global Centre for Climate Mobility (GCCM) to further climate mobility knowledge and solutions. They underscore the importance of data, modeling, and stakeholder engagement to support proactive adaptation strategies for communities confronting the climate crisis. This work is part of the ongoing proposals and development agendas of the regional climate mobility initiatives, ( David Lönnberg serves as the Senior Advisor for Youth and Outreach at the GCCM where he supports the Africa Climate Mobility Initiative (ACMI), the Greater Caribbean Climate Mobility Initiative (GCCMI), and the Rising Nations Initiative (RNI), as well as the development of the GCCM’s Solutions Lab. Sarah Rosengaertner currently serves as the Lead for Knowledge and Practice of the GCCM where she oversees the efforts of the Africa Climate Mobility Initiative (ACMI) and the Greater Caribbean Climate Mobility Initiative (GCCMI), as well as

Inaugural Yale Global Table Fellow Chef Selassie Atadika was in residence September 30–October 5, 2024. In this episode of the Global Table Podcast, host Hira Jafri sits down with Chef Atadika. Chef Atadika shares her experience in the kitchen and the connections between Culture, Community, and Cuisine, with the Environment, Sustainability, and the Economy. Global Table is a collaboration between the Yale MacMillan Center, the Yale Schwarzman Center, and Yale Hospitality, aims to illuminate the connections between sustainability, health, culture, and community. It centers around bringing culinary thought-leaders from around the world to campus. While in residence, each visitor trains staff, connects with students and researchers, and offers remarks over a meal of their own devising.