… Awareness of the environmental and societal challenges facing our world has expanded dramatically … laid bare societal strains and inequalities in access to basic healthcare. Extreme weather events have intensified all over the planet. The sixth Intergovernmental Panel on Climate … Paris Agreement. In thissurvey of 2,035 global businessstudents, conducted in partnership with the Global Network for Advanced Management and the Yale Program on Climate Change …
… Through this research opportunity, strong theoretical contributions have been made … span cognitive boundaries. The investigators have completed the qualitative data collection with Patagonia and are scheduled to conduct interviewswith our second study participant, Stone Brewery. The quantitative assessment isscheduled …
… Palm oil is everywhere. Not only is it in the news, it is also an ingredient in roughly half of the … that consumers can easily spot or screen for. When, in June 2015, France’s Ecology minister, Segolene Royal, called on her country to stop eating Nutella to avoid palm oil, … oil, it is in our cookies, our shampoos, and is used as a biofuel. As a versatile plant with efficient, high yields, oil palm, and the oil derived from it has become a …
… This global study of more than 3,700 students at 29 top businessschools, conducted by Yale University in collaboration with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and the Global Network for … recruit. 44 percent of students are willing to accept a lower salary to work for a company with better environmental practices. Conversely, about one-fifth of respondents expressed …
… This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the feasibility of designing and financing a Green Resilience Hub (GRH). GRHs are physical facilities equipped with clean energy technologies and strategically located to offer vital services to local … is to offer insights to developers and investors interested in constructing resilient infrastructure that can provide essential community services–even during disruptions to the …
… While the use of palm oil has been documented since ancient times, it is only in the past few decades … campaign took off in 2010, when the organization targeted a GAR customer, Nestlé, with a report and a provocative video that went viral on social media sites. Nestlé quickly … organization, the ISPO, which many argued had even lower standards than the RSPO. Local communitieswithin Indonesia had a mixed relationship with large palm oil companies. On one …
… 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 financing. With Walmart de México’s 15-year PPA (Power Purchase Agreement) in hand, the developers were …
… Agrivoltaics is a solar market subsegment that co-locatessolar energy production and agricultural … to choose between fuel or farming, climate or conservation, energy or rural economies. But with thoughtful planning, communities can simultaneously expand and strengthen solar infrastructure while conserving farmland, generating ecological benefits, and supporting …
… Low productivity in agriculture is a significant development challenge, yet many processes used to increase land productivity … methods of information diffusion. In the first phase, a baseline survey was conducted with 3800 farming households. The survey focused on the socioeconomic characteristics of the … and the type of farmer (lead, peer, or none) that the extension agent wassupposed to work with. A midline survey was conducted with all participants and focused on farmer …
… Throughout the world, Cummins Inc. meant diesels. The company designed, manufactured, distributed, and serviced diesel … it manufactured components, including filters, turbochargers, and aftertreatment, used with its own engines and with the systems of other manufacturers. The components and engines were all designed to …