SMART Talks: Innovation as a Driver of Climate Change Action

Session Introduction: Much of the discussion on climate change in the past has been focused on rules and regulations telling people what not to do. But what would it look like to move people away from top-down policies towards positive incentives promoting innovation and problem solving. Daniel Esty proposes an innovation-oriented sustainability strategy as a necessary framework for the future of our planet.

Dan Esty is the Hillhouse Professor at Yale University with primary appointments at Yale’s Environment and Law Schools and a secondary appointment at the Yale School of Management. He serves as director of the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy and co-director of the Yale Initiative on Sustainable Finance.

About SMART Talks on Climate Change

From devastating natural disasters to a global pandemic, the effects of climate change continue to be more pressing, extreme, and far-reaching than ever before. Through offering them the opportunity to converse with top scholars and key policy-makers in the field, our program aims to endow leaders of the next generation with useful insights to tackle the problem.