Residents of Puerto Rico are among the most worried in the world about climate change according to a new study by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication (YPCCC).
Fifty-one years after a seminal Yale study on economic growth, economists and policymakers gathered on campus for a conference on sustainable development.
Students and faculty from across YSE and Yale will be attending the annual two-week climate summit hosted by the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, where “global stocktaking,” climate finance, and youth participation are expected to take center stage.
Importantly, the US wildfire event was a huge deal for one week here but this is a massive issue everyday for other countries which face high levels of particulate matter daily — many studies have measured how this impacts cognition and worker productivity and how that translates into lost productivity for firms and lost wages for workers relative to air.