… Like many countries, Australia has a large existing buildingstock that is responsible for a substantial … replacementtime, focus hasshifted to retrofits and upgradesto existing buildingstock. This would both reduce the amount of greenhouse gasesthatthese buildings emit and reduce … Financial institutions are reluctantto lend when any claim thatthey might make in the event of a default is junior to the property mortgage holder. This is why the Environmental …
… After the recession, the Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank (RIIB), a quasi-public state entity, soughtto bring much-needed clean-energy finance into the state market. This case study describes how this bank set up the EfficientBuildings Fund (EBF) and is iteratively improving it. This bank, which combinesthe features …
… In the early 2000s, the CEO of General Electric (GE), Jeff Immelt, recognized this emerging pattern in public policy and consumer behavior, and he spotted an opportunity … Jonathan Lash, who announced hissupport of the initiative at an ecomagination launch event in Washington D.C. Other environmental groups - particularly those that had fought GE …
… Atthe end of 2010, Jifan Gao, Trina Solar’s founder and chairman, wondered how his company … had bought a large developer. However, other module makers had made a point of not pursuing thistype of downstream integration, vowing notto compete with their customers. Other … had more capacity than demand and thatsolar modules were passing from a seller’sto a buyer’s market. Atthe same time, the oversupply was pushing prices down further so that …
… When Walmart de México y Centroamérica decided to buythe power generated by the Electrica del Valle de México’s (EVM) wind farm, EVM’sstruggling project received a significant boost. While the proposed …
… On July 12, 2017, the Harvard Kennedy School of Government bestowed the prestigious Ash award in policy … Using transaction enablers and risk mitigants like loan loss reserve funds, interest rate buy-downs, subordinated debt, or warehousing facilities, the Green Bank lowered the cost of … funds came from public sources. How then could the Green Bank, whose mission rested on buildingtrust, both insulate itself from the political winds from the north, and move …
… In early 2014 Alcoa announced that Ford's F-150 pick-up trucks, the best-selling vehicles in the U.S., would use aluminum1 rather … to the auto industry. First, there wasthe problem of consumer perceptions. Car and truck buyerstended to believe that aluminum was not asstrong assteel. Especially in the truck …
… In 2014, the four largest palm oil trading companiessigned an agreementto end deforestation, … their own operations, but also from all of their suppliers. For environmental NGOs, the Indonesian Palm Oil Pledge (asthe agreement was named) represented a dramatic advance in … many environmentalists believed thatthe agreement represented a breakthrough. The events of 2015 suggested otherwise, forcing businesses, NGOs and sympathetic government …
… Bryan Garcia, the President and CEO of the Connecticut Green Bank, had a big decision to make. Garcia is a … Connecticut had a long history of considering climate change in state policy. As part of thistradition, Connecticut’s governor Dannel Malloy established the GC3 on Earth Day 2015 … energy needs. The nuclear power all came from a massive plantsituated near New London, CT called Millstone. The facility included two reactorsthat produced almost half of …
… Palm oil is everywhere. Not only is it in the news, it is also an ingredient in roughly half of the products we buy. However, it is notsomething that consumers can easily spot or screen for. When, in … in the global economy. And, as firessetto clear land for palm oil plantations blazed in Indonesia throughoutthe fall of 2015, covering the region in haze, the ubiquitous commodity …