Transport accounts for around a fifth of global carbon dioxide emissions.
As home to roughly 15,000 students and 16,000 faculty and staff, Yale has long been outwardly invested in helping people choose more sustainable transportation options, reducing private vehicle use, improving air quality, and promoting physical well-being.
Research within Yale, meanwhile, is targeting the fuels we use to move, including by investigating how to convert municipal solid waste to sustainable jet fuel and examining the conversion of algae to biodiesel.
Scholars at Yale also collaborate to deploy solutions for transportation issues that are specific to cities, where nearly 70% of the earth’s population will reside by 2050.
