Daniel C. Esty

Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy, School of the Environment and Clinical Professor of Environmental Law & Policy, Yale Law School

(on leave, fall 2023)


Dan Esty is the Hillhouse Professor at Yale University with primary appointments at Yale’s Environment and Law Schools and a secondary appointment at the Yale School of Management. He serves as director of the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy and co-director of the Yale Initiative on Sustainable Finance.

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Education & Curriculum Vitae


J.D., Yale Law School, 1986

M.A., University of Oxford, 1983

A.B., Harvard University, 1981

Courses Taught


  • Environmental Law & Policy
  • Climate Change Policy and Perspectives
  • Globalization and Sustainability
  • Corporate Environmental Management and Strategy
  • Sustainability: Energy, Environment, and the Economy in the 21st Century
  • Trade Law and Policy in a Globalizing World

Dan Esty is the Hillhouse Professor at Yale University with primary appointments at Yale’s Environment and Law Schools and a secondary appointment at the Yale School of Management. He serves as director of the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy and co-director of the Yale Initiative on Sustainable Finance. Professor Esty is the author or editor of twelve books and dozens of articles on environmental protection, regulatory reform, energy policy, and sustainability metrics -- and their connections to corporate strategy, competitiveness, trade, and economic success.

His prizewinning volume, Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage, was recently named the top “green business” book of the past decade. His current research and writing offers cutting-edge thinking about climate change, sustainable investing, innovation in the energy/environmental context, corporate sustainability, and new approaches to environmental protection -- including a widely hailed article, “Red Lights to Green Lights: From 20th Century Environmental Regulation to 21st Century Sustainability” as well as a 2019 edited book, A Better Planet: 40 Big Ideas for a Sustainable Future.

From 2011 to early 2014, Professor Esty served as Commissioner of Connecticut’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection where he earned a reputation for fresh thinking and practical results. His policy innovations include the launch of Connecticut’s first-in-the-nation Green Bank to promote clean energy using limited public funding to leverage private capital and the “LEAN” restructuring of all of Connecticut’s environmental permitting programs to make the state’s regulatory framework lighter, faster, more efficient, and effective. Prior to taking up his Yale Professorship in 1994, Professor Esty served in a variety of senior positions at the US Environmental Protection Agency where he helped to manage the agency’s regulatory programs and negotiate the 1992 Framework Convention on Climate Change. He also worked as a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, D.C., where he did breakthrough work on the links between trade and environmental issues and the broader challenges of globalization.

 

 

Wednesday, June 1, 2022


2022 Environmental Performance Index Finds World Is Not on Track to Meet Climate Commitments

Almost all countries are not on track to meet the net-zero greenhouse gas emissions goal established by the 2021 Glasgow Climate Pact, according to the 2022 Environmental Performance Index, an analysis by Yale and Columbia researchers.

Wednesday, December 22, 2021


A Year in Books: Faculty Elevated New Ideas on a Range of Critical Issues

Yale Law School’s renowned faculty published an extraordinary collection of books and scholarship in 2021. Here’s a look back at the year in books published by YLS faculty and lecturers in law.

Tuesday, November 2, 2021


A Comprehensive Overview of Environmental Governance

Two leading environmental law scholars — Hillhouse Professor at Yale University Daniel Esty ’86 and E. Donald Elliott ’74 — have published a new environmental law textbook.

Thursday, May 20, 2021


The Greener Good Series: How Does Business Adapt?

Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy Daniel Esty ’86 spoke with Minnesota Public Radio about how businesses can adapt to be more environmentally friendly.

Sunday, March 28, 2021


Markey and Progressive Democrats See Infrastructure Bill as a Way to Accomplish Green New Deal Goals

Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy Daniel Esty ’86 is quoted in The Boston Globe about the Green New Deal.

Tuesday, February 16, 2021


Business leaders hope they can satisfy Biden’s big climate goals with their own promises—not regulation

Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy Daniel Esty ’86 is quoted in Fortune article regarding the Biden administration’s goals concerning environmental policy.

Wednesday, January 6, 2021


Professor Esty Coedits Book on Values at Work

Professor Dan Esty ’86 and coeditor Todd Cort have released a new book compiling the latest trends, tools, and thinking in environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics for investors.

Tuesday, October 27, 2020


UN-linked plan charts US course to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050

Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy Daniel Esty ’86 is quoted in The Hill about the Zero Carbon Action Plan.

Sunday, October 25, 2020


Power-sharing and the Barrett nomination — A Commentary by Daniel C. Esty ’86

Daniel C. Esty ’86 is the Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy.

Wednesday, September 23, 2020


Esty Sees COVID-19 Responses Guiding States On Environmental Crises

Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy Daniel Esty ’86 is quoted in an InsideEPA article about how states’ COVID-19 response is shaping their policies relating to environmental crises. 

Thursday, June 4, 2020


Don’t Thank the Virus for Saving the Climate Yet — A Commentary by Daniel C. Esty ’86

Daniel C. Esty ’86 is the Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy.

Wednesday, April 22, 2020


COVID-19 lessons for the 50th anniversary of Earth Day — A Commentary by Daniel C. Esty ’86

Daniel C. Esty is the Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy.

Friday, January 10, 2020


Esty Launches Book of Ideas for a Better Environmental Future

Director of the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy Daniel C. Esty ’86 has edited a new book assembling ideas for a sustainable future.

Friday, November 8, 2019


The Center Cannot Hold Off Climate Catastrophe

Clinical Professor of Environmental Law & Policy Dan Esty ’86 was a guest on KCRW’s Scheer Intelligence where he discussed his latest book, “A Better Planet: Forty Big Ideas for a Sustainable Future.”

Friday, May 3, 2019


Officials say Fishway Installed in Wallingford Hasn’t Increased Populations, Yet

Clinical Professor of Environmental Law & Policy Dan Esty ’86 is quoted in an article about the results of installing a fishway on the Wallace Dam in Wallingford, Connecticut.

Friday, February 22, 2019


A New Deal at Once Possible and Problematic

Clinical Professor of Environmental Law & Policy Dan Esty ’86  is quoted in the New York Times about the feasibility of the Green New Deal.

Tuesday, March 20, 2018


To Move Paris Accord Forward, Bring Cities and Companies On Board—A Commentary by Daniel C. Esty ’86 and Peter Boyd

Daniel C. Esty ’86 is the Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and Clinical Professor of Environmental Law & Policy at Yale Law School; Peter Boyd is an executive fellow at the Yale Center for Business and the Environment.

Wednesday, January 24, 2018


India among 5 worst nations in curbing environmental pollution

Daniel C. Esty '86 is a Clinical Professor of Environmental Law & Policy at Yale Law School and Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.

Tuesday, January 23, 2018


2018 EPI Finds Air Quality as the Leading Environmental Threat

Now in its twentieth year, the biennial report is produced by researchers at Yale and Columbia Universities in collaboration with the World Economic Forum.

Sunday, October 15, 2017


Why Surge Prices Make Us So Mad

Clinical Professor of Environmental Law & Policy Daniel C. Esty ’86 is quoted in a blog post about surge pricing.

Wednesday, September 20, 2017


Professor Esty Kicks off Climate Week at Yale

Yale Law School Professor Dan Esty '86 moderated a panel to kick off Climate Week at Yale that explored the role of states, cities, and businesses in implementing the Paris Climate Change Agreement.

Wednesday, August 2, 2017


Green Bank Established by Professor Daniel Esty ’86 Receives Harvard Prize

The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, a leading research center at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, has named the Connecticut Green Bank the winner of the 2017 Innovations in American Government Award.

Friday, June 2, 2017


Dan Esty on How to Remake Environmental Protection For the 21st Century

Professor Daniel Esty ’86 explains how the White House faces a stark reality when it comes to changing course on climate change and outlines his ideas for creating a regulatory framework that improves environmental outcomes and lowers economic burdens.

Monday, May 15, 2017


Professor Esty Publishes Article on 21st Century Sustainability Strategy

Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy Dan Esty ’86 recently published an article in Environmental Law outlining his vision for a new era in environmental sustainability strategy. The journal is the nation’s oldest law review dedicated solely to environmental issues run by students of Lewis & Clark Law School.

Wednesday, February 15, 2017


Esty’s Reflections on “A Conservative Case for Climate Action”

Clinical Professor of Environmental Law & Policy Daniel Esty ’86 reacts to an op-ed in the New York Times.

Tuesday, January 24, 2017


Dan Esty Q&A on Environmental Predictions Under New Administration

A Q&A with Professor Dan Esty and a friendly reminder to "just breathe."

Friday, January 13, 2017


Daniel C. Esty '86 on How the Trump Administration Could Affect Environmental Law and Policy

Daniel C. Esty ’86 JD is the Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy at Yale’s environment and law schools.

Monday, November 28, 2016


Global warming can be attacked without Trump

Clinical Professor of Environmental Law & Policy Dan Esty ’86 is quoted in a commentary about how states and the private sector can tackle climate change.

Monday, October 24, 2016


Yale prof keeps cool as Clinton Cabinet talk heats up

Clinical Professor of Environmental Law & Policy Dan Esty ’86 is profiled.

Thursday, October 6, 2016


Inaugural Yale Sustainability Leadership Forum Held in September

Professor Dan Esty ’86, the director of the Yale Sustainability Leadership Forum, opened the event on September 21 with remarks on “Sustainability as a Megatrend in the 21st Century.”

Friday, September 23, 2016


First U.N. framework was flawed, former top diplomat laments

A presentation of Clinical Professor of Environmental Law & Policy Dan Esty ’86 at the Yale Sustainability Leadership Forum is discussed.

Thursday, September 22, 2016


Forum: Clean Power Plan is neither unprecedented nor a radical departure from past pollution control measures—A Commentary by Dan Esty ’86

Dan Esty ’86 is the Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and Clinical Professor of Environmental Law & Policy at Yale Law School.

Tuesday, August 30, 2016


The ‘Social Cost of Carbon’ Is the Most Historic Climate Change Decision Yet

Clinical Professor of Environmental Law & Policy Dan Esty ’86 is quoted in an article about the social cost of carbon.

Tuesday, July 12, 2016


2016’s Most & Least Energy-Expensive States

Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy Daniel C. Esty ’86 discusses energy costs in a roundtable.

Thursday, March 24, 2016


Terrorists, Tubs and Snakes

Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy Dan Esty ’86 is quoted in a commentary by Nicholas Kristof.

Monday, February 15, 2016


Regulatory Transformation: Lessons from Connecticut’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection—A Commentary by Daniel Esty ’86

Daniel Esty ’86 is the Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy.

Friday, February 12, 2016


Regulatory Transformation: Lessons from Connecticut’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection

Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy Daniel Esty ’86 is a guest on the podcast where he discusses his article on "Regulatory Transformation."

Monday, February 8, 2016


Student’s Arctic Trip Emphasizes Need for Climate Law

In July and August of 2015, Joanna Dafoe ’17 JD/MBA joined a Students on Ice trip as a member of the staff during a trip to the Arctic regions of Greenland and Canada.

Monday, January 11, 2016


Biofuel industry sees setbacks; Producers place blame on declining oil prices, 'government inaction'

Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy Dan Esty ’86 is quoted in an article about struggles within the biofuel industry.

Friday, December 11, 2015


Yale Team Supports Local Climate Action at Paris Talks

Professor Dan Esty ’86 and Dena Adler ’17 JD/MEM attended the U.N. Climate Change Negotiations to support broadened engagement of mayors, governors/provincial leaders, and the private sector in the international climate change negotiations.

Monday, August 24, 2015


Daniel C. Esty ’86 Elected a Fellow of the ACOEL

Daniel C. Esty ’86 is among the twenty-two lawyers elected to the American College of Environmental Lawyers (ACOEL) for 2015. 

Friday, June 19, 2015


Backing up the power grid with homemade electricity

Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy Dan Esty ’86 is quoted in an article about the power grid.

Sunday, June 14, 2015


Daniel C. Esty joins the Executive Committee of the Rexel Foundation

The Foundation announced that Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy Dan Esty ’86 has been named an executive committee member.

Thursday, February 10, 2011


Professor Daniel Esty ’86 Named Commissioner of Connecticut’s Newly-Fused Department of Energy and Environmental Protection

Yale Law School Professor Daniel C. Esty ’86 has been named by Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy as commissioner of the state’s newly-consolidated Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.

Books

Values at Work: Sustainable Investing and ESG Reporting (edited with Todd Cort), New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2020).

A Better Planet: 40 Big Ideas for a Sustainable Future (editor), New Haven: Yale University Press (2019).

The Labyrinth of Sustainability: Green Business Lessons from Latin American Corporate Leaders. (editor), New Haven: Anthem Press (2019).

Green to Gold Business Playbook:  How to Implement Sustainability Practices for Bottom-Line Results in Every Business Function (with P.J. Simmons). New Jersey:  John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (2011).

Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage (with Andrew Winston), New Haven: Yale University Press (2006). (revised and updated paperback edition from John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2009).

Global Environmental Governance: Options and Opportunities (ed. with Maria Ivanova), New Haven: Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (2002).

Greening the Americas: NAFTA’s Lessons for Hemispheric Trade (ed. with Carolyn Deere), Cambridge: MIT Press (2002).

Environmental Performance Measurement: The Global Report 2001-2002 (ed. with Peter Cornelius), New York: Oxford University Press (2002).

Regulatory Competition and Economic Integration: Comparative Perspectives (ed. with Damien Geradin), Oxford: Oxford University Press (2001).

Sustaining the Asia-Pacific Miracle: Environmental Protection and Economic Integration (with Andre Dua), Washington: Institute for International Economics (1997).

Thinking Ecologically: The Next Generation of Environmental Policy (ed. with Marian Chertow), New Haven: Yale University Press (1997).

Asian Dragons and Green Trade:  Environment, Economics and International Trade (ed. with Simon Tay), Singapore:  Times Academic Press (1996).

Greening the GATT:  Trade, Environment and the Future, Washington:  Institute for International Economics (1994).

Book Chapters

“Sustainable Investing at a Turning Point,” in Values at Work: Sustainable Investing and ESG Reporting (with Todd Cort) New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2020).

“Creating Investment-Grade Corporate Sustainability Metrics,” in Values at Work: Sustainable Investing and ESG Reporting, New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2020).

“Toward a Next Generation of Corporate Sustainability Metrics,” (with David A. Lubin) Values at Work: Sustainable Investing and ESG Reporting, New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2020).

“Free Trade and Environmental Protection,” in The Global Environment, 5th edition, (Regina S. Axelrod, Stacy D. VanDeveer, eds.) Washington, DC: Sage Publishing (2019).

“From Crises and Gurus to Science and Metrics: Yale’s Environmental Performance Index and the Rise of Data-Driven Policymaking,” (with John W. Emerson) in Routledge Handbook of Sustainability Indicators (Simon Bell, Stephen Morse, eds.), New York: Routledge Press (2018).

“Measurement Matters: Toward Data-Driven Environmental Policy-Making,” in Routledge Handbook of Sustainability Indicators (Simon Bell, Stephen Morse, eds.), New York: Routledge Press (2018).

“Rethinking NAFTA: Deepening the Commitment to Sustainable Development,” in Peterson Institute for International Economics, PIIE Briefing17-2 (with James Salzman), (C. Fred Bergsten and Monica de Bolle, eds.), Washington, DC, (2017).

“Regulatory Excellence: Lessons from Theory and Practice,” in Achieving Regulatory Excellence, (Cary Coglianese), Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press (2016).

“Economic Integration and Environmental Protection,” in The Global Environment: Institutions, Law, and Policy, 4th edition, (Regina S. Axelrod and Stacy D. VanDeveer, eds.) Washington, DC: CQ Press (2014).

“Globalisation and Environmental Stewardship: A Global Governance Perspective,” (with Maria Ivanova) in A Handbook of Globalisation and Environmental Policy: National Government Interventions in a Global Arena, 2nd edition, (Frank Wijen et al, eds.), Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar (2012).

“Lessons from Copenhagen,” in U.N. Global Compact International Yearbook (2010).

“Good Governance at the World Trade Organization:  Building a Foundation of Administrative Law,” in The Future of International Economic Law (William J. Davey and John Jackson, eds.) Oxford: Oxford University Press (2008).

“Governing at the Trade-Environment Interface,” in Global Governance and the WTO (Gary Sampson, ed.), Tokyo, Japan: United Nations University Press (2008).

“Foreword,” in State of World 2008: Innovations for a Sustainable Economy in Christopher Flavin et al, eds.), Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute (2008).

 “Global Environmental Governance,” in Global Governance Reform (Colin Bradford and Johannes Linn, eds.), Washington, DC: Brookings Press (2006).

Government Interventions in a Global Arena (Frank Wijen et al, eds.), Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar (2005).

“On Portney’s Complaint: Reconceptualizing Corporate Social Responsibility” in Environmental Protection and the Social Responsibility of Firms (2005).

"The Environmental Dimension of Economic Integration: The FTAA and Beyond" in Integrating the Americas: FTAA and Beyond (Entoni Estevadeordal et. al., eds.), Cambridge: Harvard University Press (2004).

"Strengthening the International Environmental Regime: A Transatlantic Perspective" in Transatlantic Economic Disputes: The EU, the US, and the WTO (Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann and Mark A. Pollack, eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press (2003).

 “Toward a Global Environmental Mechanism” (with Maria Ivanova), in Worlds Apart: Globalization and the Environment (James Gustave Speth, ed.), Washington, DC: Island Press (2003).

“Environmental Sustainability in the Arab World” (with Marc Levy and Andrew Winston), in The Arab World Competitiveness Report 2002-2003, New York: Oxford University Press (2003).

“Revitalizing Global Environmental Governance: A Function-Driven Approach” (with Maria Ivanova), in Global Environmental Governance: Options & Opportunities (Daniel C. Esty and Maria H. Ivanova, eds.), New Haven, CT: Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (2002).

“Trade and the Environment in the Americas: Overview of Key Issues” (with Carolyn L. Deere), in Greening the Americas: NAFTA’s Lessons for Hemispheric Trade (ed. with Carolyn Deere), Cambridge: MIT Press (2002).

“Environmental Governance at the WTO: Outreach to Civil Society” in Trade, Environment, and the Millennium, Second Edition (Gary P. Sampson and W. Bradnee Chambers, eds.), Tokyo: United Nations University Press (2002).

“National Environmental Performance Measurement and Determinants” (with Michael Porter), in Environmental Performance Measurement: The Global 2001-2002 Report (Daniel C.  Esty and Peter Cornelius, eds.),  New York: Oxford University Press (2002).

“Why Measurement Matters,” in Environmental Performance Measurement: The Global 2001-2002 Report (Daniel C.  Esty and Peter Cornelius, eds.)  New York: Oxford University Press (2002).

“Ranking National Environmental Regulation and Performance: A Leading Indicator of Future Competitiveness?” (with Michael Porter), in The Global Competitiveness Report 2001 (Michael E. Porter and Jeffrey Sachs, et al.), New York: Oxford University Press (2001).

“Regulatory Co-opetition,” in Regulatory Competition and Economic Integration: Comparative Perspectives (Daniel C. Esty and Damien Geradin, eds.), Oxford:  Oxford University Press (2001).

“We the People: Civil Society and the World Trade Organization,” in New Directions in International Economic Law: Essays in Honour of John H. Jackson (Marco Bronckers and Reinhard Quick, eds.), Great Britain: Kluwer Law International (2000).

“Measuring National Environmental Performance and Its Determinants,”  in The Global Competitiveness Report 2000 (Michael Porter and Jeffrey Sachs, et al., eds.), New York:  Oxford University Press (2000).

“Environment and the Trading System: Picking up the Post Seattle Pieces,” in The WTO After Seattle (Jeff Schott, ed.), (2000).

“Economic Integration and the Environment,” in The Global Environment: Institutions, Law, and Policy (Norman J. Vig and Regina S. Axelrod, eds.), Washington, DC: CQ Press (1999).

“The State Failure Project: Early Warning Research for U.S. Foreign Policy Planning” (with Jack Goldstone and Ted Robert Gurr, et al.), in Preventive Measures: Building Risk Assessment and Crisis Early Warning Systems (John L. Davis and Ted Robert Gurr eds.), Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield (1998).

“Environmentalists and Trade Policymaking,” in Constituent Interests and U.S. Trade Policies (Alan V. Deardorff and Robert M. Stern, eds.), Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, (1998).

“Pivotal States and the Environment,” in United States Strategy and the Pivotal States: Testing an Intellectual Hypothesis (Paul M. Kennedy et al., eds.), New York: Norton (1998).

 “Environmental Protection” in Regional Trade Agreements: The European Community and NAFTA (with Damien Geradin), in Regionalism and Multilateralism After the Uruguay Round: Convergence, Divergence, and Interaction (Paul Demaret et al., eds.), Brussels, European Interuniversity Press (1997).

“APEC and Sustainable Development” (with Andre Dua), in Whither APEC?: The Progress to Date and Agenda for the Future (C. Fred Bergsten, ed.), Washington: Institute for International Economics (1997).

“Foreign Investment, Globalisation, and Environment” (with Brad Gentry), in  Globalisation and Environment (Tom Jones, ed.), Paris: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (1997).

“Environmental Protection During the Transition to a Market Economy,” in Economies in Transition: Asia and Europe (Wing Woo, Stephen Parker, Jeffrey Sachs, eds.), Cambridge: MIT Press (1997).

“Environmental Regulation and Competitiveness: Theory and Practice,” in Asian Dragons and Green Trade:  Environment, Economics and International Law (editor with Simon Tay),  Singapore:  Times Academic Press (1996).

“Greening World Trade,” in The World Trading System: Challenges Ahead (Jeffrey Schott, ed.), Washington:  Institute for International Economics (1996).

“Balancing Free Trade and Intervention,” in Contemporary International Law Issues: Conflicts and Convergence(Wybo Heeve, ed.), The Hague:  T.M.C. Asser Instituut (1995).

“Making Trade and Environment Policies Work Together,” in Trade and Environment: The Search for Balance (Damien Geradin et al. eds.), London:  Cameron-May (1995).

“The Case for a Global Environmental Organization,” in Managing the World Economy:  Fifty Years After Bretton Woods (Peter Kenen, ed.),  Washington: Institute for International Economics (1994).

“Integrating Trade and Environmental Policymaking:  First Steps in NAFTA,” in Trade and Environment: Law, Economics and Policy (Durwood Zaelke, ed.), Washington:  Island Press (1993).

Journal Articles

“ESG Standards: Looming Challenges and Pathways Forward,” (with Todd Cort), Organization & Environment, (July 28, 2020). https://doi.org/10.1177/1086026620945342.

“Harnessing Investor Interest in Sustainability: The Next Frontier in Environmental Information Regulation” (with Quentin Karpilow), Yale Journal on Regulation Volume 36, Issue 2, (July 2019).

“Changing International Law for a Changing Climate,” (with Dena P. Adler), American Journal of International Law Unbound 112: 279-84 (2018).

“Where is global waste management heading? An analysis of solid waste sector commitments from nationally-determined contributions (with Jon T. Powell and Marian Chertow), Waste Management 80: 137-143 (2018).

“Business Leadership in Global Climate Change Responses”, (with Michelle Bell), American Journal of Public Health 108, no. S2 (April 1, 2018): pp. S80-S84.

“Trumping Trump: Pourquoi L’Accord De Paris Survivra,” Revue Juridique de l’Environment special volume 2017: 49-57.

“Lessons from First Campus Carbon-Pricing Scheme,” (with Kenneth Gillingham, and Stefano Carattini), Nature (31 October 2017).

“Corporate Sustainability Metrics: What Investors Want and Don’t Get,” (with Todd Cort), Journal of Environmental Investing 8(1): 11-53(2017).

“Red Lights to Green Lights: From 20th Century Environmental Regulation to 21st Century Sustainability,” Environmental Law 47(1): 1-80 (April, 2017).

“Toward a Sustainable Global Economy: An Initiative for G20 Leadership,” Journal of Self-Governance and Management Economics 5(2): 46–60 (August, 2016).

“Regulatory Transformation: Lessons from Connecticut’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection,” Public Administration Review vol. 76, Issue 3: 403-12 (2016).

“Sustainability: Bridging the Sustainability Gap,” (with David Lubin), MIT Sloan Management Review, (June 2014)

“Development: Mobilize citizens to track sustainability,” (with Angel Hsu, Omar Malik, and Laura Johnson), Nature (30 March 2014)

“Green Rules to Drive Innovation,” (with Steve Charnovitz), Harvard Business Review (March 2012)

“The Sustainability Imperative,” (with David Lubin), Harvard Business Review (May 2010), pp. 2-50.

Book Review, “Global Warming and the World Trading System,” World Trade Review, vol. 9, no. 1 (January 2010), pp. 282-285.

“Meshing Climate Change Controls and Trade Policy:  Getting Down to Business, A Review of Global Warming and the World Trading System (with G. Clyde Hufbauer, S. Charnovitz, and J. Kim), World Trade Journal (2009).

“Breaking the Environmental Law Logjam:  The International Dimension,” N.Y.U. Environmental Law Journal, vol. 17 (2008).

“Climate Change and Global Environmental Governance,” Global Governance, 14:111–118 (2008).

“Rethinking Global Environmental Governance to Deal with Climate Change:  The Multiple Logics of Global Collective Action,” American Economic Review:  Papers & Proceedings 98:2 (2008).

“Good Governance at the Supranational Scale: Globalizing Administrative Law,” Yale Law Journal, vol. 115, no.7 (2006).

 “From Local to Global: The Changing Face of the Environmental Challenge”, SAIS Review, Vol. XXVI, no.2, (Summer-Fall, 2006).

“National Environmental Performance: An Empirical Analysis of Policy Results and Determinants,” (with Michael E. Porter), Environment and Development Economics, vol. 10, no. 4 (2005).

“Environmental Protection in the Information Age,” NYU Law Review, vol. 79, no. 1 (2004).

“Rejoinder,” (response to David Henderson), World Trade Review, vol.  1, no.  3 (2002).

“The World Trade Organization’s Legitimacy Crisis,” World Trade Review, vol. 1, no. 1 (2002).

“A Term’s Limits,” Foreign Policy (September/October 2001).

“Bridging the Trade-Environment Divide,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 15, no. 3 (2001).

“Next Generation Environmental Law: A Response to Richard Stewart,” Capital University Law Review, vol. 29, no. 1 (2001).

“A Term’s Limits,” Foreign Policy (October, 2001) pp. 74-75.

“The Fount of Climate Change Scholarship,” The Yale Journal of International Law, vol. 25, no. 2 (2000).

“Regulatory Co-opetition,” Journal of International Economic Law, vol. 3, issue 2 (2000).

“An Environmental Perspective on Seattle,” Journal of International Economic Law , vol. 3, no. 1 (March 2000).

“Toward Optimal Environmental Governance,” New York University Law Review ,  vol. 74, no. 6 (1999).

Book Review, “Making International Environmental Treaties Work,” Journal of International Economic Law , vol. 2, issue 3 (1999).        

“Sustaining the Asia Pacific Miracle,” Asia Pacific Journal of Environmental Law , vol. 3, issue 4 (1998).

“Linkages and Governance: NGOs at the World Trade Organization,” University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Economic Law , vol. 19, no. 3 (1998).

“Moving From National to International Environmental Policy” (with Robert Mendelsohn), Policy Sciences , vol. 31, no. 3 (1998).

“Industrial Ecology and Competitiveness” (with Michael E. Porter), Journal of Industrial Ecology, vol. 2, no. 1 (1998).

“Environmental Protection and International Competitiveness: A Conceptual Framework” (with Damien Geradin), Journal of World Trade, vol. 32, no. 3 (1998).

“Sustainable Development and Environmental Federalism,” Widener Symposium Law Journal , vol. 3 (1998).

“NGOs at the World Trade Organization: Cooperation, Competition, or Exclusion,” Journal of International Economic Law , vol. 1, no. 1 (March 1998).

“Market Access, Competitiveness, and Harmonization:  Environmental Protection in Regional Trade Agreements” (with Damien Geradin), Harvard Environmental Law Review, vol. 21, no. 2 (1997).

“Stepping Up to the Global Environmental Challenge,” Fordham Environmental Law Journal , vol. xiii, no. 1 (1996).

“Revitalizing Environmental Federalism,” Michigan Law Review , vol. 95, no. 3 (1996).

“What's the Risk in Risk?” Yale Journal  on Regulation, vol. 13, no. 2 (1996).

“Ökologisierung des GATT - oder ein “GATT” für die Umwelt,” Jahrbuch Ökologie 1996 (Udo Simonis, ed.), Munich:  Beck (1996).

“Private Sector Foreign Investment and the Environment,” Review of European Community and International Environmental Law (RECIEL), vol. 4, issue 2 (1995).

“Unpacking the Trade and Environment Conflict,” Law and Policy in International Business, vol. 25, no. 4 Summer (1994).

“Making Trade and Environmental Policies Work Together: Lessons from NAFTA,” Aussenwirtschaft (The Swiss Review of International Economic Relations), vol. 49 (1994).

“GATTing the Greens: Not Just Greening the GATT,”  Foreign Affairs, (November/December 1993).

“Environmental Protection and International Trade:  Toward Mutually Supportive Rules and Policies” (with Peter Lallas and David Van Hoogstraten), Harvard Environmental Law Review, vol. 16, no. 2 (1992).

“Market Structure and Political Influence” (with Richard Caves), Economic Inquiry, (January 1983).

Other Articles

“Earth Day at 50: Pathways to a Sustainable Future,” Our Daily Planet, (April 25, 2020), available at: https://www.ourdailyplanet.com/story/special-bonus-earth-day-at-50-pathways-to-a-sustainable-future.

“COVID-19 Lessons for the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day,” The Hill, (April 22, 2020), available at: https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/493946-covid-19-lessons-for-the-earth-day-50th-anniversary.

“An Earth Day CEO Summit Shows How Dramatically Corporate Values have Changed,” (with Jeffrey Sonnenfeld), Fortune, (April 22, 2020), available at: https://fortune.com/2020/04/22/earth-day-sustainability-ceo-summit.

“Managing Interdependence in a World of Chaos,” American College of Environmental Lawyers, (August 8, 2018), available at: http://www.acoel.org/post/2018/08/08/Managing-Interdependence-in-a-World-of-Chaos.aspx.

“Delivering Climate Change Progress,” The Environmental Forum, vol. 35, no. 2 (March/April 2018).

“To Move Paris Accord Forward, Bring Cities and Companies On Board,” YaleE360, (March 20, 2018), available at: https://e360.yale.edu/features/to-move-paris-accord-forward-bring-cities-and-companies-on-board.

“Trumping Trump on Climate Change,” American College of Environmental Lawyers, (July 25, 2017), available at: http://www.acoel.org/post/2017/07/25/Trumping-Trump-on-Climate-Change.aspx.

“Climate Action Needs Green, Not Just Red Lights,” The Guardian, (April 28, 2017) available at: https://www.theguardian.com/the-gef-partner-zone/2017/apr/28/climate-action-needs-green-not-just-red-lights.

“The Next Four Years,” As the Trump administration prepares to move in, 11 Yale faculty give their predictions and suggestions. Yale Alumni Magazine. (January/February, 2017). https://yalealumnimagazine.com/articles/4425-the-next-four-years.

“Clean Power Plan is Neither Unprecedented Nor a Radical Departure from Past Pollution Control Measures,” New Haven Register (September 22, 2016) available at: http://www.nhregister.com/opinion/20160922/forum-clean-power-plan-is-neither-unprecedented-nor-a-radical-departure-from-past-pollution-control-measures.

“Moving Toward a Cheaper, Cleaner, and More Reliable Energy Future,” Springfield Republican op-ed (June 20, 2016).

“A Bottom-Up Approach to Clean Energy,” U.S. News (December 18, 2015) available at: http://www.usnews.com/debate-club/is-the-paris-climate-agreement-a-good-strategy/a-bottom-up-approach-to-clean-energy.

“Remaking American Environmentalism,” (review of Jedediah Purdy’s After Nature), Los Angeles Review of Books (December 2015).

“Shifting Gears on Climate Change,” (with Rudy Provoost), Huffington Post (September 2015) available at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-c-esty/shifting-gears-on-climate-change_b_8167428.html?1442838446.

“Changement climatique: une nouvelle stratégie” (with Rudy Provoost), Le Monde (September2015) available at: http://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2015/09/22/changement-climatique-une-nouvelle-strategie_4767354_3232.html.

“Bottom-Up Climate Fix,” New York Times op-ed (September 21, 2014) available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/22/opinion/bottom-up-climate-fix.html

 “How to make Wall Street notice Sustainability leaders,” (September 2, 2014) (available at http://www.greenbiz.com/blog/2014/09/02/how-make-wall-street-notice-sustainability-leaders )

“Getting Clean Energy Policy Right” (with Dr. Varun Sivaram), EnergyBiz (January/February 2014), p. 44.

“Pain at the Pump? We Need More,” (with Michael E. Porter), New York Times op-ed (April 27, 2011) available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/28/opinion/28esty.html?_r=0

“Why Climate Change Collective Action has Failed and What Needs to be Done Within and Without the Trade Regime” (with Anthony Moffa), in Multilevel Governance of Interdependent Public Goods: Theories, rules and institutions for the central policy challenge in the 21st Century (Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann, ed.), European University Institute (2012).

“Climate Change Plan B,” Huffington Post, April 13, 2010 (available at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-c-esty/climate-change-plan-b_b_536314.html).

 “Making Sustainability Part of Everyone’s Job (with Sandra Lauterbach), The Journal of the Human Resource Planing Society, vol. 33, issue 1 (March 2010).

“Copenhagen Or Bust?,” National Journal Blog, September 29, 2009 available at
http://energy.nationaljournal.com/2009/09/ready-for-copenhagen.php#1365776.

“Riding the Green Wave in the Economic Downturn,” Media & Entertainment Journal, Fall 2009.

“As Copenhagen Talk Nears, What are the Prospects for Success,” Yale 360, Nov. 23, 2009 available at http://e360.yale.edu/content/feature.msp?id=2213.

“Reset:  Making Sustainability the Centerpiece of Our Recovery,” Huffington Post, April 2009.

“Revitalizing Global Environmental Governance for Climate Change,” Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations, vol. 15, no. 4, Oct-Dec 2009.

“Foreward,” in 2008 State of the World:  Innovations for a Sustainable Economy (The Worldwatch Institute, 2008), pp. xv-xvii.

“Reclaiming US Leadership in Global Environmental Governance,” SAIS Review of International Affairs, (with Maria Ivanova), vol. xxxviii, Fall 2008.

“The Path Beyond Kyoto,” in the Third Annual Global Colloquium of University Presidents:
Position Papers From Colloquium Participants, New York University, November 28-29, 2007.

“Ride the Wave or Go Under,” The Guardian, (November 5, 2007), p. 29.

“Jeffrey Immelt: Green Business Trailblazer,” Time, (October 23, 2007), available at
http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1663317_1663322_1...

 “What Stakeholders Demand,” Harvard Business Review, (October 2007), p. 30.

“The Promise of Data-Driven Policymaking,” (with Reece Rushing) Issues in Science and Technology, vol. XXIII, no. 4 (Summer 2007), p. 67.

"Final Word," 2 Fast Company, (June 2007).

“Is China Turning Green?,” Fortune (May 4, 2007) available at           http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/05/14/100024847/index.htm

 “When Being Green Puts You in the Black”, The Washington Post, p. B01(March 4, 2007).

"Green is Beautiful: Helping the Planet Doesn't Have to Hurt Your Bottom Line," CIO Magazine, (Jan. 2, 2007).

“Greener Pastures”, Wall Street Journal, p. A.8, (Dec 29, 2006).

“Governing by the Numbers: The Promise of Data-Driven Policymaking in the Information Age” (with Reece Rushing), Center for American Progress (November 21, 2006).

 "On My Mind: It's Easy Being Green," Forbes, (Oct. 2, 2006).

 “Globalizing Administrative Law,” Administrative and Regulatory Law News, vol. 32, no. 1 (Fall 2006).

“Toward Data-Driven Decisionmaking: Why Measurement Matters,” Inside Green Business, vol. 1, no. 16 (16 August 2006).

“Energy Tide Turns Toward Alternatives,” Hartford Courant (27 June 2005).

“Measuring Up:  Applying the Environmental Sustainability Index,” (with Tanja Srebotnjak) Yale Journal of International Affairs, vol. 1, issue 1 (Summer/Fall 2005).

 “Sustainable Management of the Global Natural Commons,” Background Studies Issue Paper,
International Task Force on Global Public Goods (February 2004).

 “Lessons from Johannesburg,” The Yale Herald (Sept. 20, 2002).

“Thickening the International Environmental Regime,” Robert Schuman Centre Policy Paper Series, European University Institute (June 2002).

“Free Trade and Environmental Protection,” Paper presented at The Convergence of U.S. National Security and the Global Environment Sixth Conference, The Aspen Institute (May 27-June 2, 2002).

“In a High Tech Environment,” Worldlink (January/February 2002).

“Toward Data-Driven Environmentalism:   The Environmental Sustainability Index,” The Environmental Law Reporter, vol. xxxi, no. 5 (2001).

“Digital Earth: Saving the Environment,” OECD Observer, no. 226 (May 2001).

“The Value of Creating a Global Environmental Organization,” Environment Matters Annual Review  (July 1999 - June 2000).

“Environmentalism by Number,” (with Kim Samuel-Johnson) Worldlink, (January/February 2001).

“Vers une organisation monndiale de l’environment?” Courrier de la Planete 
(55-2000-1).

“Global Environment Agency Will Take Pressure Off WTO,” Financial Times (Thursday, July 13, 2000) (response to Calestous Juma’s “Stunting Green Progress”).

“An Earthy Effort,” Worldlink (September/October 2000).

“Trade Storms,” Worldlink (May/June 2000).

“Green Index,” Worldlink (January/February 2000).

“Feeding Frankenstein,” Worldlink (September/October 1999).

“No More Trade-Offs,” Worldlink (May/June 1999).                       

“Breaking Protocol,” Worldlink (November/December 1998).

“Globalization and the Environment,” The American Oxonian vol. LXXXV, no. 4 (Fall 1998).

“Clean Competition,” Worldlink (September/October 1998).

“Next Generation of Environmental Policy Looks to Industrial Ecology” (with Marian Chertow), Environmental Business Journal (January 1997).

“Environmental Policy: The Next Generation, (with Marian Chertow), Issues in Science and Technology (Fall 1997).

“Trade and Environment Mix,” Journal of Commerce (7 November 1997).

“U.S. Must Lead on the Environment,” Newsday (25 June 1997).

“Private Capital Flows: New and Additional Resources for Sustainable Development” (with Brad Gentry), Bridges to Sustainability: Business and Government Working Together for a Better Environment, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies Bulletin Series, no. 101 (1997).

“Greening U.S. Aid to China” (with S. Dunn), China Business Review January-February 1997).

“A Difficult Position: China, Climate Change and Joint Implementation” (with Dan Rosen and Seth Dunn), China Review, issue 4, (Summer 1996).

“The Challenge of Going Green,” Harvard Business Review, vol. 72, no. 4 (1994).

“Toward a Greener GATT,” International Economic Insights, (March/April 1994).

“Rio Revisited:  Turning the Giant's Head,” Ecodecision (September 1993).

“New Linkages and Policy Challenges,” The Environmental Forum, vol. 5, no. 4 (July/August 1992).

“Competitiveness – Not Just a Buzzword” (with Robert Herzstein), The New York Times, (January 1987).

Other Publications

“Compromise and the Art of the Deal,” Our Daily Planet (December 15, 2018), available at https://mailchi.mp/4975f35a294f/our-daily-planets-bright-ideas-dan-estyhillhouse-professor-of-environmental-law-and-policy-at-yale-law-school

“A Tribute to One of My Environmental Heroes: President George H.W. Bush,” Our Daily Planet, (December 4, 2018), available at http://us16.forward-to-friend.com/forward/show?u=0dab4d757f3c1102acb135b56&id=66c234247a

Good Governance at the Supranational Scale: Globalizing Administrative Law (Chinese book version of 2006 Yale Law Journal article, translated by Lin Tai, Beijing: Law Press, 2018.).

2018 Environmental Performance Index: Global Metrics for the Environment (with Zach Wendling, Jay Emerson, Mark Levy, Alex de Sherbinin, et al) New Haven: Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy (available at: www.epi.yale.edu).

“Proposed G20 Initiative for the International Trade and Investment Regimes on Sustainable Development and Climate Change,” International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development: Geneva (April, 2016).

2016 Environmental Performance Index: Global Metrics for the Environment (with A Hsu, MA Levy, A de Sherbinin, et al) New Haven: Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy (available at: www.epi.yale.edu).

2012 Environmental Performance Index and Pilot Trend Environmental Performance Index, (with JW Emerson, A Hsu, MA Levy, A deSherbinin, V Mara, and M Jaiteh), New Haven: Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy (available at http://epi.yale.edu)

2010 Environmental Performance Index, (with Jay Emerson, Mark A. Levy, Christine Kim, Valentina Mara, Alex de Sherbinin, and Tanja Srebotnjak), New Haven: Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy (available at http://epi.yale.edu).

2008 Environmental Performance Index, (with Mark A. Levy, Christine Kim, Alex de Sherbinin, Tanja Srebotnjak, Valentina Mara), New Haven: Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy (available at http://epi.yale.edu).

Pilot 2006 Environmental Performance Index, (with Mark A. Levy, Tanja Srebotnjak, Alex de Sherbinin, Christine Kim, Bridget Anderson), New Haven: Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy (available at http://www.yale.edu/epi).

2005 Environmental Sustainability Index (with Mark A. Levy, Tanja Srebotnjak, Alex de Sherbinin), New Haven: Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy (available at http://www.yale.edu/esi).

“Making International Environmental Agreements Work: The Case for a Global  Environmental Organization” (with Maria Ivanova). Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy Working Papers Series, Working Paper 2/1, http://www.yale.edu/gegdialogue) (May 2001).

Environmental Sustainability Index 2002, Geneva: World Economic Forum (annual releases in 2000-2002) (available at http://www.ciesin.columbia.edu/indicators/esi).

“Toward a Global Environmental Organization,” Toward Shared Responsibility and Global Leadership: A Report to the Leaders of the G-8 Member Countries (Bergsten, C.F. et al, 2001).

“Comment: Beyond the Club System,” Efficiency/Equity/Legitimacy: The Multilateral Trading System at the Millennium (Roger B. Porter, et al. eds.), Washington: Bookings Institution (2001).

NAFTA and the Environment  (with Gary C. Hufbauer, Diana Orejas, Luis Rubio and Jeffrey J. Schott), Washington: Institute for International Economics (2000).

“Why the World Trade Organization Needs Environmental NGOs,” Public Participation in the International Trading System, vol. 1, no. 3 (1997).

“Environment and Security: Borders and the Biosphere,” The Convergence of U.S. National Security and the Global Environment (Dick Clark, ed.), Washington: Aspen Institute (1996).

“Policy Implications from Long-Term Scenarios: the Global Environment,” Globalisation and Linkages to 2020, Paris: OECD (1996).

Restructuring the Global Environmental Facility (with J. Koehler), Washington:  Overseas Development Council (1993).