… At the end of 2010, Jifan Gao, TrinaSolar’s founder and chairman, wondered how his company could expand its presence in the … of Focus Equity and Justice Sustainable Finance and ESG Clean Energy Access the Complete Case … At the end of 2010, Jifan Gao, TrinaSolar’s founder and chairman, wondered how his …
… In 2014, the Connecticut Green Bank released the second edition of its CT Solar Lease program in an attempt to create an accessible financing solution for independent … to support the rising demand for residential and commercial solar systems. This casestudy focuses on the residential side of the solar-lease program. The program combined …
… Harish Hande and the company he founded, SELCO, provide solar electricity for lighting and power to India's poor. For the work of his company, Hande … midwives, or rural farmers, SELCO created solutions for the particular needs of its target market. Sometimes this meant redesigning the solar equipment and sometimes this meant … of Focus Equity and Justice Sustainable Finance and ESG Clean Energy Access the Complete Case … Harish Hande and the company he founded, SELCO, provide solar electricity for …
… As the Connecticut Green Bank works to design high-impact programs for the solarmarket, it has supported the design and adoption of legislation that expanded the Residential Solar Investment Program (RSIP) by creating the Solar Home Renewable Energy Credit (SHREC). …
… health benefits, its taste, its beauty. Illy also has a dream that someday soon the coffee market might be transformed into something approaching the market for wine. Where connoisseurs discuss the fine points of various origin coffees and … Food Systems and Nature Based Solutions Sustainable Finance and ESG Access the Complete Case … Andrea Illy is CEO of the global premium coffee company that bears his family’s name. …
… 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 and … firms like Climate Change Capital (CCC) of London taking the lead in shaping the nascent market. Even though the EU was the only group of nations to create a formal mechanism for … Areas of Focus Equity and Justice Sustainable Finance and ESG Access the Complete Case … Most environmentalists had hoped that the December 2009 Climate Change Conference in …
… three-and-a-half years on the international stage. By the end of 2007, the company was the market leader in Asia and had completed projects in fourteen countries across five … believed these first years were just a warm-up for what was to come (the company’s market capitalization had doubled since its IPO in 2005). Global demand for wind energy … of Focus Equity and Justice Sustainable Finance and ESG Clean Energy Access the Complete Case … Suzlon, an India-based wind energy company, had made quite a splash in its first …
… Rather than spend research dollars, many other manufacturers had bowed out of the diesel market, leaving Cummins with a major market opportunity. Given its heavy R&D expense, Cummins had to find ways to spread the … of Focus Equity and Justice Sustainable Finance and ESG Circularity Access the Complete Case … Throughout the world, Cummins Inc. meant diesels. The company designed, manufactured, …
… the truck bed and cab. Starting with the 2015 model year, the F-150 would be the first mass-market vehicle to be built with major body construction from aluminum. Alcoa spent $300 million expanding its Iowa factory and planned another $150 million on facilities in Tennessee to … of Focus Sustainable Finance and ESG Circularity Equity and Justice Access the Complete Case … In early 2014 Alcoa announced that Ford's F-150 pick-up trucks, the best-selling …
… quasi-public state entity, sought to bring much-needed clean-energy finance into the state market. This casestudy describes how this bank set up the Efficient Buildings Fund (EBF) and is iteratively …