… In 2014, the four largest palm oil trading companiessigned an agreement to end deforestation, development of peat … but also that of their suppliers, perhaps the problems in the palm oil industry could be resolved. So when Indonesian Palm Oil Pledge (IPOP) brought together the major traders to … many environmentalists believed that the agreement represented a breakthrough. The events of 2015 suggested otherwise, forcing businesses, NGOs and sympathetic government …
… While the use of palm oil has been documented since ancient times, it is only in the past few decades that this tropical … 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 …
… In the early 2000s, the CEO of General Electric (GE), Jeff Immelt, recognized this emerging pattern in public … public policy and grow his company's bottom line. Under Immelt's leadership, GE launched an environmental business initiative called "ecomagination" in 2005 that was rooted in four … 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 …
… Like many countries, Australia has a large existing building stock that is responsible for a substantial … Financial institutions are reluctant to lend when any claim that they might 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 …
… Santam, the leading short-term insurer in South Africa, was actively pursuing a strategy and … expertise and decades of weather-related data to estimate the frequency of major weather events. It was widely acknowledged that climate change was likely to increase the frequency … costs, or reduce risk to make crop insurance more feasible? How should Santam evaluate potential resilience projects? And how could the company share its expertise in risk …
… 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, … alternative to other vegetable oils, production pressures have led to undeniable environmental and social impacts on both global and local scales. The most notable of those …
… During the 1950s, a small band of meteorologists, physicists and chemists began conducting observations and … certain” that global warming due to the greenhouse effect was underway and could have potentially devastating consequences for the ecology of the planet. Since automobiles were a … more efficient diesel engines on the U.S. market. Meanwhile, international efforts to prevent global warming had accelerated. A series of UN-sponsored conferences, bringing …
… 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 … But even with the announcement of the F-150's aluminum body, Alcoa still faced significant challenges in selling to the auto industry. First, there was the problem of consumer … at Alcoa and other aluminum manufacturers faced a difficult challenge to forecast the potentialsize of the market for aluminum in the auto industry. Would other U.S. automakers …
… In August of 2014, Mark Gentry, the Chief Operating Officer of Gifford Pinchot State University (GPSU) Foundation**, called Robert Farrington, a Managing Director at … been helping their clients think through these new investment considerations and evaluate potential methods to reflect such considerations within their portfolios. As a target the …
… Pepsi has a new challenge. In 2007, PepsiCo became the first consumer company to use the Carbon … its carbon emissions - from both a cost cutting perspective as well as company-wide environmental commitment - the direct value of using a carbon label to reach consumers … its carbon emissions - from both a cost cutting perspective as well as company-wide environmental commitment - the direct value of using a carbon label to reach consumers …