… The Green Bank Network (GBN) was launched at the Paris COP21, and was established to help meet … energy and energy efficiency technologies worldwide. The global GBN platform will allow Green Banks and other key industry stakeholders to learn about leading Green Bank practices in order to increase clean energy and green infrastructure investment. …
… The Climate Investor’s Evolving Toolkit: Are Green Bonds Today “2C” Investments or Merely “Greenwashed” Fixed Income? In the last 3 years, the labeled green bond market has seen tremendous growth and has emerged as a viable option in the …
… for large-scale deployment of renewable thermal technologies (RTTs) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through energy savings and fuel shifting. The Renewable Thermal Alliance (RTA), a public-private partnership initiated by NYSERDA, CT Green Bank, and Yale University, has emerged to coordinate efforts among 200 individual … for renewable heating and cooling through the provision of an independent non-profit market-building platform for financing solutions. The RTA engages stakeholders along the whole …
… The objective of this project is to investigate ways that consumers make inferences about green product quality. The investigators found that consumers tend to infer that green products are worse quality than traditional (non-green) alternatives. In short, this effect appears to result from consumers’ reliance upon a …
… Yale GreenLight Ideation Workshop: Travelers Insurance GreenLight is a series of highly interactive, fast-paced ideation workshops with leaders of … of existence, this company has made sustainability a prominent value. Travelers has come to GreenLight for our help in how to make disaster cleanup more sustainable. Currently, …
… how we produce our food. Agriculture sits at the crossroads of many of the world’s major issues, whether it is climate change, water use, energy use, health, biodiversity loss, or … a form of agriculture that not only doesn’t contribute to the problem, but is also building soil, capturing carbon, and feeding the world’s billions of people. But what does … a form of agriculture that not only doesn’t contribute to the problem, but is also building soil, capturing carbon, and feeding the world’s billions of people. But what does …
… Responding to findings by scientists that linked palm oil plantations to deforestation, Greenpeace, a global environmental NGO, began campaigning in 2005 to save the Indonesian … leading palm oil firm and issued reports criticizing the practices of the company. Greenpeace’s campaign took off in 2010, when the organization targeted a GAR customer, … video that went viral on social media sites. Nestlé quickly bowed to the demands of Greenpeace and dropped GAR as a supplier. Unilever had already canceled its contracts with …
… for an upcoming webinar panel featuring the Executive Directors of two recently-established green banks – the Philadelphia Green Capital Corp (PGCC) and the Nevada Clean Energy Fund (NCEF). PGCC’s Maryrose Myrtetus … two organizations, lessons learned in the early days, and visions for their respective green banks in the coming years. This is an exciting opportunity to hear firsthand the …
… Join ESIG and CBEY for a Banking on a Green Energy Future panel on Wednesday, February 21 at 4pm in Evans Hall Room 4200 . Kerry O’Neill (Connecticut Green Bank), Michael Baer (Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank), and Jessica Renny (FES/SOM ’17, New York Green Bank) will give their take on how the Green Bank model has evolved in recent years and …
… the conversation will feature fresh thinking and cutting-edge insights on net-zero, green bonds, growing regulatory pressures, and other emerging issues in the world of sustainable finance – especially those of interest to the sustainable … Content of Their Character. How Diversity & Inclusion Continue to Drive Change Panel 4: Green and sustainable bonds Chair: Anya Nakhmurina , Yale School of Management Dion …