Shimul Bijoor

Shimul Bijoor
Climate Impact Fund Fellow, VertueLab
Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Master of Environmental Management, 2021
Directors Board, Environmental Film Festival at Yale

Shimul graduated with a Master of Environmental Management from the Yale School of the Environment in 2021. She now works as the Climate Impact Fund Fellow at VertueLab, where she collaborates with the team to source, screen, and carry out investments in climate technology and innovation. She also supports efforts to measure the impacts of these innovations along environmental, social, and economic lines. Prior to Yale, she has experience working with a range of sustainability initiatives - from evaluating government-business partnerships for ecotourism and designing policies for Marine Protected Areas with Dakshin Foundation, to assessing sustainable architecture and cooling technology with cBalance Solutions, and measuring the impacts of equity investments in aquaculture innovation with Hatch.

 

Authored Articles
Mangroves in Florida

Mangroves on Florida's Manatee River / Rick Schwartz / CC BY-NC 2.0

Mainstreaming Blue Carbon to Finance Coastal Resilience

Blue carbon could be crucial in facilitating both private and public capital investment in coastal and marine ecosystems. The blue carbon market is, at present, still nascent. Governments and international institutions are revising methods of monitoring carbon to include blue carbon and develop structures to encourage private investment in blue...