Yale Emerging Climate Leaders Fellowship

Delighted to see this collaboration come to life. Proud of our Fellows Constanza Gomez Mont and Alex Muñoz Wilson.

We are delighted to announce our 2025 cohort of Fellows! “These Fellows have demonstrated considerable impact – and hold extraordinary potential ” said Emma Sky, director of the Yale International Leadership Center. “They include a trailblazing Saudi female engineer advancing the country’s circular economy agenda, a Nigerian fashion executive driving sustainability in the sector, and the CEO of a major Thai renewables firm. We look forward to helping them exchange ideas and collaborate in seeding and scaling climate solutions."

Happy holidays to all those celebrating! May the new year bring you peace, joy and community.

So proud of Gilberto Ribeiro de Oliveira Filho (YCF 2024) for being selected by High-Level Climate Champions as one of the #COP29ImpactMakers, for his work “leading climate finance innovations for sustainable energy and land use in Brazil.” https://lnkd.in/eAHy_Dwd

Moving reflections from Rafael Pástor on his fellowship journey. Applications for our next cohort are open until November 8! Learn more and apply now at: https://lnkd.in/g7bcrEju

Graduated. Officially a Yale Climate Fellow 2024 / YCF’24. What a great journey of learning this has been. I’ve learnt not only from what the program has had to offer but I’ve also learnt so much from my peers. Every single person I’ve come across throughout this program has been such a source of inspiration! Couldn’t have hoped for a better 2024!

Applications for the 2025 cohort of the Yale Emerging Climate Leaders Fellowship are now open! More details and application link at climatefellows.yale.edu

Artificial intelligence (#AI) has been the undisputed buzzword of 2024, but we are only beginning to grapple with its potential to transform entire industries - and societies. Much like #climate change, responsible AI governance is one of the defining collective challenges of the 21st century, a complex task transcending borders and disciplines. And as with climate change, alongside unprecedented risk come vast new opportunities. How can we leverage AI to supercharge the green transition? Artificial intelligence is already helping track and trace pollution, predict climate disasters, and map deforestation. Where can AI enable incremental gains, facilitating things we are already doing— and where can it help us unlock breakthrough science? The potential for impact is extraordinary — if we break down the silos between the AI, nature and climate communities. How can we build collaborations across climate, nature and AI to reduce emissions, enhance #resilience, and protect #nature at the necessary speed and scale? And how can we overcome hurdles around #data and #trust in the deployment of AI, and put the users at the center, empowering citizens and communities as they leverage the technology? Our very own Constanza Gomez Mont (YCF 2024), Charlotte Wang (YWF 2024) and Siddharth Sinha (YCF 2024) explored these questions in a panel yesterday moderated by Yuval Ben-David as part of Yale @ #ClimateWeekNYC. With experience applying AI across mitigation, adaptation and biodiversity solutions in diverse global contexts, our panelists inspired with their clear-headed optimism about the promise of new technology while engaging frankly with the ethical, social and political implications of AI x Climate solutions. Yale World Fellows | Yale Emerging Climate Leaders Fellowship

The 2024 program of our Yale Emerging Climate Leaders Fellowship has come to a close. The 16 extraordinary Yale Climate Fellows came together in Paris last week to exchange views with top global experts and decision-makers — including from the International Energy Agency (IEA), European Commission, UNESCO and Breakthrough Energy — and to continue pursuing emerging collaborations that cut across geographies and disciplines to accelerate the green transition. From New Haven to Paris to Brussels, it has been a joy to watch this group inspiring and supporting each other, and cross-pollinating ideas that are taking shape into substantive initiatives such as Nature-Based Discussions - a podcast series about nature-based solutions - and a policy playbook for Global South cities tackling similar issues such as extreme heat and air quality. To our rising leaders — Asghar Leghari, Manja Kargbo, Siddharth Sinha, Shalu Agrawal, Luana Gaspar, Gilberto Ribeiro de Oliveira Filho, Rafael Pástor, Iman Ustadi, Constanza Gomez Mont, Adedoyin Pearse, Lorraine Njue, FIA, Mluleki Shongwe, Hu Jacky, Zhouwei Diao, Satrio A. Wicaksono and Tiza Mafira, may you continue rising together, and reach for the stars!

We were honored to meet with International Energy Agency (IEA) Executive Director Fatih Birol yesterday in Paris. The 2024 Yale Climate Fellows briefed him on their innovative and interdisciplinary work across clean #energy, climate #adaptation and #nature-based solutions, and discussed with Dr. Birol the unique challenges - and opportunities - for emerging and developing economies in navigating the green transition. Thanks to Dr. Birol for a dynamic conversation that touched on the centrality of #cities (responsible for nearly 80% of global emissions) to the energy transition; how to harness #AI for energy while contending with the soaring energy demands of AI; and the indispensable role of climate #finance in moving from ambition to implementation.