… The conference also left in doubt the future of current mechanisms such as the European Carbon Market. The conference in Copenhagen came after 20 years of international conferences … to global warming. Over the next 11 years, the panel - formally convened as the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - issued two more climate change … investment opportunities in Europe, Latin America and Asia. A new industry around carbonfinance emerged, with firms like Climate Change Capital (CCC) of London taking the lead in …
… In the early 2000s, the Federal government of Mexico enacted a series of laws promoting the use of alternative fuels in gasoline, beginning with … EGADE Business School, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Monterrey Equity and Justice Sustainable Finance and ESG Clean Energy Circularity PEMEX: The Ethanol Decision … PEMEX: The Ethanol …
… CO2 to the atmosphere, scientists at General Motors, the world’s largest automaker, had started looking at the greenhouse effect in the mid-1980s. The wide-ranging discussions within … U.S. market. Meanwhile, international efforts to prevent global warming had accelerated. A series of UN-sponsored conferences, bringing together the nations of the world, had … believed that the agreement would not be ratified by the Senate. In 1988, a vocal, well-financed lobbying organization called the Global Climate Coalition (GCC) had been formed by …
… Standing at water’s edge, Marina Bay Sands (MBS) annually attracted 45 million visitors who came to lodge, to gamble, to shop, to relax, to attend meetings … The MICE team had set a goal of 500 green meetings annually by the year 2030. Teng had a particular interest in seafood, and worked with WWF to address procurement issues in the … MBS committed to source 100% of its top-ten species, and 50% of all of its seafood - about two million pieces per year - from responsible sources by 2020. With some success under its …
… standards developed in recent years for new buildings do not address much of the existing carbon emissions. In the face of the long replacement time, focus has shifted to retrofits and upgrades to existing building stock. This would both reduce the amount … and is senior to the mortgage, providing the incentive necessary to attract private finance. It also addresses the misalignment of incentives by creating an Environmental …
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… Bank (RIIB), a quasi-public state entity, sought to bring much-needed clean-energy finance into the state market. This case study describes how this bank set up the Efficient … and an infrastructure bank, was developed under new political leadership. The recently-elected state treasurer, Seth Magaziner, proposed the EBF to Gina Raimondo, the new state … which it leverages to support clean-energy activities. The Rhode Island Public Energy Partnership (RIPEP) was temporarily accelerating utility energy-efficiency efforts. The new …
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