Applications Invited for Emerging Climate Leaders Fellowship

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About the Organization

Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701, Yale is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution.

About the Fellowship

The Emerging Climate Leaders Fellowship brings together a diverse community of clean energy and climate change leaders from developing countries. Fellows engage with  Yale’s top faculty, researchers, and global authorities like the International Energy Agency to tackle the clean energy transition and climate change challenges.

Yale Orientation Week | April 7-11, 2025

This five-month fellowship begins with a one-week, in-person orientation program at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, from April 7-11, 2025.

Fellows will engage in a series of interactive sessions with prominent Yale faculty and practitioners to set the terms of the global climate change debate.

Fellows will explore the wide range of climate change initiatives housed at Yale and delve into cutting-edge scholarship on a broad range of clean energy and climate issues. 

Remote Learning Journeys | May-July 2025

From May through July 2025, Climate Fellows will organize and carry out a series of interactive remote sessions with top international experts on the full range of policy issues associated with climate change and the clean energy transition. Sessions are spirited journeys allowing for development of communities of practice in specialties and extensive mentoring opportunities.

Possible topics include:

• strengthening global climate change governance, including the UN process
• exploring decarbonization pathways, including the IEA Net Zero 2050 scenario
• accelerating renewable electricity growth and addressing challenges of system integration
• strengthening innovation and uptake of promising clean energy technologies
• promoting energy efficiency and behavioral change
• investigating the challenges of a people-centered clean energy transition
• developing and deepening financial vehicles to advance the clean energy transition
• exploring market-based climate policy tools, including carbon pricing
• exploring regulatory policy tools to support uptake of clean energy solutions
• improving climate change communication
• closing energy access gaps with clean energy technologies
• developing cost effective negative emissions technologies, including direct air capture
• exploring the role of nature-based climate solutions
• broadening and deepening corporate and investor initiatives on climate change
• tackling energy security issues, including the role of fossil fuels in the energy transition
• exploring supply chain and related geopolitical challenges of the clean energy transition
• analyzing challenges of reducing methane emissions in emerging and developing countries

Paris Closing Week | September 15-19, 2025

• The fellowship concludes with an in-person week in Paris, from September 15–19, 2025.
• Fellows will meet with top international climate change analysts; share perspectives gleaned throughout the program; and consolidate professional and personal contacts developed through peer learning and exchanges of views.
• Fellows will have networking opportunities with staff members from the International Energy Agency and the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), French central government and municipal officials, and representatives of civil society organizations, think tanks, academia, and the private sector.
• Fellows will also present policy recommendations on specific clean energy and climate-related challenges to a global advisory board, publish those findings, and maintain contacts through an alumni network.

Eligibility

• Applicants should be between five and 10 years into their professional careers, with demonstrated accomplishments at a regional, national, or international level. While there is no maximum age limit, we are looking for young leaders to launch the program.
• Applicants must be representatives of the Global South. We look forward to welcoming a diverse representation from developing Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America/Caribbean.
• Applicants must be fluent in English. An excellent command of the English language is essential to successfully participating in the program.
• Climate Fellows must be available to fully participate in-person for two weeks of the program: the Yale Orientation week (April 7-11, 2025), and the Paris closing week (September 15-19, 2025).  Fellows must also be available to participate in the five remote learning journeys to be arranged remotely between May and early July 2025.

How to Apply

Application deadline: Friday, November 8, 2024 at 12:00 PM (noon) EST

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