Measured Insights
The latest blog posts from our research projects.
HIRING! Outreach and Communication Student Research Assistant for Spring 2018
General Purpose The Yale Data-Driven Environmental Solutions Group (Data-Driven Yale) seeks a student research assistant to contribute to our team's writing and outreach. Our work has been published in high-profile academic journals,...
Is China ready to take up a global climate action leadership role? Observations from Bonn
China’s message to the world at the latest UN climate talks was clear: its climate and emission goals would be honored, with or without the United States. But does that make China the new global leader in climate action?
Meet Yihao Xie
Yihao is a researcher for Data-Driven Yale. He’s a recent graduate from Yale-NUS College, where he majored in environmental studies with a specialization in public health and environment. His academic interests include urban environmental sustainability, environmental...
Data-Driven COP-23
Representatives from 195 nations and roughly 20,000 delegates from across the world gathered over a fortnight in Bonn, Germany for the 23rd annual Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP-23), the next step for...
Data Driven Yale Wins Award in UN Data for Climate Action Contest
Photo: Dr. Angel Hsu and Data-Driven Yale’s winning team, John Brandt, Matthew Moroney, and Sophie Janaskie, accept their award from Robert Kirkpatrick, Director at United Nations Global Pulse, and Dave Tang, Senior Vice President at Western Digital. Photo courtesy of...
1 Gigaton Coalition 2017 Report Launch
The third annual 1 Gigaton Coalition report, “Renewable energy and energy efficiency in developing countries: contributions to reducing global emissions,” launched Oct.31 at a release event in Paris. This year’s report expands on two previous iterations, quantifying...
Meet Andrew Feierman
Andrew is a Quantitative Analyst for Data-Driven Yale. Before joining the group, he worked for the Institute for Market Transformation in Washington, DC, where he modeled city-level environmental policies and worked with real estate companies to reduce energy...
Mapping American Climate Action: Who’s Taking Charge of the Paris Agreement
This post and map were produced by Data-Driven Yale members Angel Hsu, Zev Nicolai-Scanio, Ross Rauber, Yihao Xie, Amy Weinfurter, Tina Huang, Geoffrey Martin, Ryan Thomas, Sophie Janaskie, Franz Hochstrasser, Sabrina Long, and Algol (Ziang) Li. On June 1 2017,...
HIRING! Student Research Assistants
General Purpose Data-Driven Yale is seeking student research assistants to contribute a range of projects aimed to bring quantitative rigor and analysis to environmental policymaking. Research projects include measuring urban environmental performance; assessing...
Data-Driven Yale contributes to Nature Comment: Three Years to Safeguard our Climate
The world has three years to prevent catastrophic climate change, according to a group of experts convened by former UNFCCC chairwoman Christiana Figueres. In a comment published yesterday in Nature, Figueres, along with five co-authors and more than 60...
