Interviews / Q&As

Brazil is the driving force behind the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF), an international financing program that will provide economic incentives to promote tropical forest conservation. YSE News spoke with faculty experts about the benefits and challenges of the ambitious funding initiative that was formally launched at COP30. 

Professor Nyeema Harris spoke with YSE News about how humans and animals can coexist in city spaces.

YSE experts discuss the state’s strategies for advancing renewable energy in a shifting federal landscape.

COP30, which opens next week in Belém, Brazil, is expected to have an unprecedented focus on the essential role of Indigenous peoples in driving sustainable global climate response. Associate Professor Paulo Brando, an internationally recognized expert on tropical forest ecology, recently spoke to YSE News about the urgent need to connect ancestral knowledge with scientific methods to monitor and protect

Chuck Sams, a trailblazer in environmental stewardship and the former director of the National Park Service, takes on a new leadership challenge at the Yale Center for Environmental Justice.

YSE experts weigh in on tropical forest degradation, biodiversity loss, and pathways to restoration.

At a recent Nobel symposium, Yale’s Paul Anastas and an international array of scientific leaders called for structural shifts across science, policy, and education to advance sustainability goals that promote economic development while safeguarding health and the environment.

Yale School of the Environment experts discuss the potential impacts of increased logging on national forest lands, including on wildfire risks and efforts to combat climate change.

Microplastics are getting into our water, food, and our bodies, including our brains. YSE News spoke with Professor Paul Anastas about the increasing threats and how green chemistry can be part of the solution.

YSE experts discuss environmental and public health impacts of the fires as well as how fire-prone regions can prevent and manage the spread of wildfires in the future.

Research Scientist Hanno Erythropel spoke with YSE News about how turning CO₂ into a wide range of products such as consumer goods, industrial materials, and chemicals can help mitigate the climate crisis.

Todd Cort, co-director of the Yale Center for Business and the Environment, and Daniel Esty, the Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy discuss the potential impacts of the big U.S. banks pulling out of the Net-Zero Banking Alliance.

YSE Professor Yuan Yao discusses the environmental costs and benefits of artificial intelligence.

YSE and Yale faculty experts discuss the potential impacts of the Supreme Court's recent Chevron decision — on environmental regulations, ESG, and efforts to combat climate change.

In an op-ed published in The New York Times over Memorial Day weekend, “America’s Trails Are a Wonder, and They Need Our Help,” Professor Justin Farrell and master’s student Steven Ring ’25 MEM highlighted the need to better maintain neglected and often deteriorating public trails in the U.S.