… 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 …
… Standing at water’s edge, Marina Bay Sands (MBS) annually attracted 45 million visitors who … center also became the first facility in Southeast Asia to obtain ISO 20121 Sustainable Events ManagementSystem certification. Beyond the physical plant, MBS looked to create … other aspects of the facility? Did a focus on sustainability make sense for a luxury brand associated with gambling? More globally, how could the MBSteam ensure thatthe work …
… 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 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 …
… Andrea Illy is CEO of the global premium coffee company that bears his family’s name. As one might … the roasters or customers and no knowledge of how their crops gettranslated into the cup. This disadvantages not only the grower but also the consumer – coffee sourced from good …
… 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 …