Mission

The Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy seeks to advance cutting edge environmental thinking and policy analysis so that decisionmaking in the public, business, community, and personal realms promotes sustainability.

More specifically, the Center seeks to

• Train future environmental leaders by encouraging innovative thinking and rigorous analysis.

• Identify pressing environmental problems and advance effective policies, strategies, and decisionmaking tools in response.

• Move the environmental debate beyond political and sectoral boundaries to enable integrated approaches to problem-solving.

• Identify scientific and technological advances that can ease uncertainty and respond to the complexity of environmental protection.

• Cultivate a greater understanding of stakeholder attitudes, values, and behavior toward environmental policy choices and how these diverse perspectives affect policy outcomes.