… Most environmentalists had hoped that the December 2009 Climate Change Conference in … $64 billion by the World Bank at the end of 2007. Besides the European Market, a number of regional, voluntary markets for carbon allowances formed in the rest of developed world. …
… Santam, the leading short-term insurer in South Africa, was actively pursuing a strategy and associated initiatives to build climate change resilience in South Africa. The company claimed over 22% of all insurance … expertise and decades of weather-related data to estimate the frequency of major weather events. It was widely acknowledged that climate change was likely to increase the frequency …
… On July 12, 2017, the Harvard Kennedy School of Government bestowed the prestigious Ash award in policy innovation, the "Nobel of … the green bank movement." The Green Bank used financial structuring to attract private capital to clean energy projects in Connecticut. Using transaction enablers and risk … investment in clean energy, create Connecticut jobs, promote energy security, and addressclimate change. Further, changes to funding, structure, and products could all affect the …
… During the 1950s, a small band of meteorologists, physicists and chemists began conducting observations and … an increase in CO2 and other gasses in the atmosphere to the general warming of the earth’sclimate, a phenomenon dubbed “the greenhouse effect”. Since CO2 was a byproduct of the … more efficient diesel engines on the U.S. market. Meanwhile, international efforts to prevent global warming had accelerated. A series of UN-sponsored conferences, bringing …
… In 2014, the four largest palm oil trading companiessigned an agreement to end deforestation, development of peat … for palm oil had skyrocketed from 1990-2010 and crude palm oil (CPO) became the most highly traded edible oil. The palm oil boom had significant impact on economic development in rural … many environmentalists believed that the agreement represented a breakthrough. The events of 2015 suggested otherwise, forcing businesses, NGOs and sympathetic government …
… Suzlon, an India-based wind energy company, had made quite a splash in its first three-and-a-half years on the … 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 remained strong and Suzlon had added significant capacity. Indian textile manufacturer Tulsi Tanti founded Suzlon in 1995 to avoid having to …
… Andrea Illy is CEO of the global premium coffee company that bears his family’s name. As one might … at a barely subsistence level. One bad harvest (made all the more likely by the ravages of climate change) or a sudden decline in the commodity price of coffee can drop them below … that could lead to greater uniformity with even less emphasis on origin-based, direct-traded coffee. Illy’s hope is that someone would come up with an innovation that would …
… Harish Hande and the company he founded, SELCO, provide solar electricity for lighting and power to India's poor. For the work of his … During its initial years of operation, the company expanded deliberately as it gained capital and experience. Then in an ill-fated attempt to scale-up during the early 2000s, …
… At the end of 2010, Jifan Gao, Trina Solar’s founder and chairman, wondered how his company could expand its presence in the … company Kyocera announced that it was building a solar module plant near San Diego, California. Sharp and Solarworld, manufacturers based outside the U.S., had long operated … itself. At the beginning of 2011, many analysts warned that PV manufacturers had more capacity than demand and that solar modules were passing from a seller’s to a buyer’s …
… In the early 2000s, the Federal government of Mexico enacted a series of laws promoting the use of … yet been developed. Second, ethanol could help Mexico meet its ambitious goals addressing climate change. Third, biofuels could provide a new market for Mexico'sstruggling … ethanol for fuel production, (2) the potential market opportunities for PEMEX, and (3) the climate change commitments for the Government of Mexico, you have been tasked to suggest the …