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Environmental Sustainability at Yale: An Organizational Map                            

November 2023

Yale is well engaged with environmental sustainability through its three divisions in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (Humanities, Social Sciences, Science), 14 graduate and professional schools, and nearly 100 departments, as well as centers, initiatives, programs, student organizations, institutes, laboratories, museum, and other efforts.  In 2020 Yale launched the Planetary Solutions Project to “unite leadership and experts across disciplines to tackle the environmental challenges threatening life on Earth” and to bring greater coherence to these University efforts.   And in 2023, the University created the new position of Vice Provost for Planetary Solutions to lead that effort by establishing strategic priorities for the initiative.  At a university as large and complex as Yale, this is no small feat.  The Planetary Solutions Organizations website lists many of the programs now underway, many of an interdisciplinary nature.  In addition, Yale Blue Green has identified the programs below to highlight the role played by many of the schools, and to illustrate the kinds of other initiatives that exist.  As Yale develops its leadership role to address the climate and environmental crises, it is promoting significant interdisciplinary approaches to find solutions to these complex problems.  This list of resources is an attempt to reflect at least a portion of the effort underway.

I. Planetary Solutions

 The Planetary Solutions Project

 Yale’s Approach to Climate Change

Organizations and Initiatives

II. Schools

Center for Ecosystems in Architecture

Sustainability and Eco-theology Initiative

The Living Village

Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering

Yale Center for Industrial Ecology

Carbon Containment Lab (CC Lab)

Center for Industrial Ecology (CIE)

Climate Connections

Environmental Leadership Training Initiative (ELTI)

Hixon Center for Urban Sustainability

Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Sustainability Initiative (JEDSI)

Quiet Corner Initiative (QCI)

SEARCH Center: Solutions for Energy, Air, Climate, and Health

The Forests Dialogue (TFD)

Tropical Resources Institute (TRI)

Ucross High Plains Stewardship Initiative

Urban Initiative

Urban Resources Initiative (URI)

Yale Applied Science Synthesis Program (YASSP)

Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY)

Yale Center for Environmental Communication

Yale Center for Environmental Justice

Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy (YCELP)

Yale Environment 360

Yale Environmental Dialogue

Yale Forest Forum (YFF)

Yale Forests

Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology (FORE)

Yale Program on Climate Change Communication (YPCCC)

Affiliated: Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies (YIBS)

Affiliated: Yale Center for Earth Observation

Affiliated: Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture

Affiliated: Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale (CITY)

The Kerry Initiative

Environmental Protection Clinic (with Yale School of the Environment)

Law, Ethics and Animals Program

Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy (with Yale School of the Environment)

Yale Center for Environmental Justice (with Yale School of the Environment)

Yale Center for Business and the Environment

YSE SOM Joint Degree Program

Yale Institute for Global Health

Planetary Health Initiatives

Yale Center on Climate Change and Health

Other Yale Professional Schools: Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Art, Drama, Music

III. Offices

Office of Sustainability

Yale Office of Sustainability

Yale Carbon Charge

Yale Community Carbon Fund

IV. Departments, Centers and Programs and Institutes (selection)

Center for Genetic Analyses of Biodiversity

Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering at Yale

Center for Natural Carbon Capture

Center for the Study of Globalization

Climate and History Initiative

Energy Sciences Institute

Energy Studies Multidisciplinary Academic Program

Environmental Humanities Initiative

Marsh Botanical Garden

Max Planck-Yale Center for Biodiversity Movement and Global Change

Program in Eco-Evolutionary Interactions

Program on the Evolution of Flower Form and Function

Program in Reproductive Ecology

Program in Spatial Biodiversity Science and Conservation

Sustainability Enabled Exploration at Yale (SEE@Yale)

Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale (Tsai CITY)

Yale Center for Biodiversity and Global Change

Yale Center for Environmental Communication (YCEC)

Yale Center for the Study of Globalization

Yale Climate Connections

Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies (YIBS)

Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics

Yale Peabody Museum

Yale Sustainable Food Program

V. Student Environmental Groups

Bulldog Sustainability

Yale’s Student Environmental Coalition (YSEC )

YSEC Member Groups:

Environmentalists of Color Collective, Endowment Justice Coalition, Environmental Education Collaborative, GREEN, Students for Carbon Dividends, Yale Outdoors, Yale Sustainable Consulting Collective

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