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… On February 23, 2007, your investment banking firm receives an urgent call from James D. Marston, Regional Director of Environmental Defense's Texas Office and head of the Texas Climate Initiative. You meet with …
… 2000s, palm oil had become the most heavily traded edible oil in the world. Golden Agri Resources (GAR) hasbeen in the forefront of this palm oil boom in Indonesia. Founded in 1996 … the world’s leading exporter of crude palm oil. The palm oil boom, however, concerned environmentalists. Palm oil plantations had been carved out of precious rainforest and peat … targeted a GAR customer, Nestlé, with a report and a provocative video that went viral on social media sites. Nestlé quickly bowed to the demands of Greenpeace and dropped GAR as a …
… In 2014, the four largest palm oil trading companiessigned an agreement to end deforestation, development … of locals not only with their own operations, but also from all of their suppliers. For environmental NGOs, the Indonesian Palm Oil Pledge (as the agreement was named) represented … to mill, refine, and export the substance. However, oil palm cultivation had created social tensions as many rural inhabitants claimed that large plantation companies had …
… In the early 2000s, the CEO of General Electric (GE), Jeff Immelt, recognized this emerging pattern in public … public policy and grow his company'sbottom line. Under Immelt's leadership, GE launched an environmentalbusiness initiative called "ecomagination" in 2005 that was rooted in four commitments: To double investment in clean research and development (R&D) to $1.5 …
… y Centroamérica decided to buy the power generated by the Electrica del Valle de México’s (EVM) wind farm, EVM’sstruggling project received a significant boost. While the proposed wind farm was located in an area with abundant wind resources, absent a creditworthy off-taker the project would not have been able to line up … Walmart de México undertook had to work in concert with Mexico’s electricity grid and rate-makingstructure. Mexico’s political leadership had announced a commitment to electricity …
… Like many countries, Australia has a large existing building stock that is responsible for a substantial … make in the event of a default is junior to the property mortgage holder. This is why the Environmental Upgrade Agreement (EUA) plays an important role. The EUA is a deal structure … both the investment cost for energy-efficiency upgrades and the subsequent cost savings. Source Yale Center for Business and the Environment Areas of FocusSustainable Finance and …
… At the end of 2010, Jifan Gao, Trina Solar’s founder and chairman, wondered how his company could expand its presence in the … were also expanding their presence in the United States. Trina had to decide how it wasgoing to respond and how much it was willing to invest in its efforts to grow in the U.S. In … developing B2C channels to tap into the growing market of local contractors and do-it-yourselfers looking to add solar panels to their roofs. Trina had already partnered with …
… As the Connecticut Green Bank works to design high-impact programs for the solar market, it … renewable portfolio standard (RPS) wasbeing predominantly met with out-of-state resources from Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, yielding little economic development benefits …
… NY Green Bank (NYGB), New York State’s $1-billion clean-energy fund, and a young new efficiency company named Sealed signed … in their underwriting criteria. So the cost per project can be too low for significant resources to be dedicated to vetting each one. Plus, the methods of energy-efficiency upgrades … NYGB and Sealed entered the loan agreement to find a solution to these challenges. To guide other green-bank-like entities that are familiar with the deployment of debt financing …