Measured Insights
The latest blog posts from our research projects.
Is the City Prosperity Index appropriate to monitor the environmental SDGs in urban areas?
The United Nations Programme for Human Settlements (UN-HABITAT) developed the City Prosperity Initiative (the “Initiative”) as a framework to evaluate urban sustainable development through a new metric, the City Prosperity Index (CPI). At the UN-Habitat III conference...
How a New Policy Mapping Tool Helps Chinese Cities’ Climate Efforts
Low-carbon development initiatives are proliferating in Chinese cities in line with the country’s National New-type of Urbanization Plan (2014-2020), yet there are major uncertainties regarding explicit targets, implementation strategies, and progress tracking. The...
Moving Towards Implementation: The Next Steps for Climate Action Research
Cities, regions, companies, investors and civil society organizations made headlines last year, coming forward in record numbers to commit to climate action alongside national leaders at the Paris Climate Conference. This November, the international community gathered...
Data-Driven Yale at COP-22
November 4th marks the beginning of the 22nd Conference of the Parties (COP-22), where global leaders will gather to discuss the implementation of the Paris Climate Agreement, the global accord guiding international action to address global warming. The Yale...
New Urban Agenda is Adopted in Quito
Last week, a group of over 45,000 attendees and representatives from 143 countries and 500 cities[1] participated in the adoption of the New Urban Agenda (the Agenda) at the UN-Habitat III conference in Quito. The Agenda includes a vision of sustainable urbanism,...
Meet Data Driven Yale’s New Team Members
This fall, Data Driven Yale welcomes several new team members with expertise ranging from programming to policy analysis to data science. Read more on their backgrounds and interests below: Aadit is a second-year undergraduate student at Yale-NUS College, currently...
Data Driven Yale at Habitat III
The Data Driven Environmental Solutions Group will be participating in the upcoming UN-Habitat III Conference in Quito, Ecuador, from October 17-21. Below are some highlights of our activities there. Please follow along on social media @datadrivenyale with...
Data Transparency is Key to Growth of Green Finance in China
China is building momentum to incorporate green finance into its national development strategy, demonstrating a keen understanding that environmental protection requires significant investment. In 2013, China’s Third Plenum of the 18th Congress of the Communist Party...
New Publication Explores Implementation of Climate Goals
This February, in the wake of the Paris Climate Agreement, the Observer Research Foundation convened a workshop to take stock of the new landscape of global climate governance. The Foundation's recently-released publication, Road from Paris: Ensuring Effective and...
Sun and Shade: New Scorecard Ranks Connecticut Towns’ Solar Performance
By Carlin Rosengarten and Danny Macri When you see solar panels on residential rooftops do you ever wonder how these power producing panels got there? How did the homeowner pay for the state-of-the-art system? Did they receive government assistance? In almost all...
