… Palm oil is everywhere. Not only is it in the news, it is also an ingredient in roughly half of the products we buy. … 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 … was placed under increased scrutiny. In addition to being used as a cooking oil, it is in our cookies, ourshampoos, and is used as a biofuel. As a versatile plantwith efficient, …
… Standing at water’s edge, Marina Bay Sands (MBS) annually attracted 45 million visitors who … company, Las VegasSands Corp., had worked hard to make operations and facilities more resource-efficient. The resort had garnered a Green Mark Platinum Award and was actively … top-ten species, and 50% of all of itsseafood - abouttwo million pieces per year - from responsiblesources by 2020. Withsome success under its belt, the MBSteam was looking to …
… While the use of palm oil has been documented since ancienttimes, it is only in the past few … 2000s, palm oil had become the most heavily traded edible oil in the world. Golden Agri Resources (GAR) has been in the forefront of this palm oil boom in Indonesia. Founded in 1996 by the influential Widjaja family (operators of the Sinar Mas …
… The Yale Farm was founded in 2003 by a group of students who wished to see the dining halls … and helped inspire the Yale Dining Hall to move toward more organic and locally grown food sources (though the vast majority of the food comes from sources other than the Yale Farm). … varieties of vegetables, fruit, flowers, and herbs, which issold in a farmer's market or donated to local food banks. The farm'sstaff of four manages community work days and …
… Andrea Illy is CEO of the global premium coffee company that bears his family’s name. As one might expect, he is … 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 quality beans is hard to find. lly believesthatthe solution to the sad …
… 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 … land rights. Indonesian land-use laws were ambiguous and land ownership unmapped. This indeterminate state of affairs had led to widespread corruption, as companies …
… Like many countries, Australia has a large existing building stock that isresponsible for a substantial … replacementtime, focus hasshifted to retrofits and upgradesto existing building stock. This would both reduce the amount of greenhouse gasesthatthese buildings emit and reduce … both the investment cost for energy-efficiency upgrades and the subsequent costsavings. Source Yale Center for Business and the Environment Areas of FocusSustainable Finance and …
… On February 23, 2007, your investment banking firm receives an urgent call from James D. Marston, Regional Director of … battles over TXU's proposed new coal-fired plants. However, there is much uncertainty in this new opportunity - Marston (and you) know none of the details of the KKR (Kohlberg, …
… During the 1950s, a small band of meteorologists, physicists and chemists began conducting … the burning of fossil fuels, these models implied that human activity was a contributor to this increase in global temperature. During the 1980s, the models drew more scientific … had started looking atthe greenhouse effect in the mid-1980s. The wide-ranging discussionswithin GM had led to an ambitious program to improve the efficiency of internal combustion …
… In the early 2000s, the Federal government of Mexico enacted a series of laws promoting the use of alternative fuels in gasoline, beginning with ethanol from sugarcane. This meantthatthe national oil company PEMEX had to find waysto implementthis policy. …