… Like many countries, Australia has a large existing building stock that is responsible for a substantial percentage of its greenhouse-gas … reduce the amount of greenhouse gases that these buildings emit and reduce their operating costs. While these energy-efficiency upgrades are often cash-flow-positive with the right …
… Andrea Illy is CEO of the global premium coffee company that bears his family’s name. As one might expect, he is passionate about coffee – its … blends, where customers are willing to pay a premium for the finest examples of the coffee-making art, and the growers, roasters and baristas will be compensated fairly for the … roasters in its wake. Observers argued that could lead to greater uniformity with even less emphasis on origin-based, direct-traded coffee. Illy’s hope is that someone would come …
… a small band of meteorologists, physicists and chemists began conducting observations and building models linking an increase in CO2 and other gasses in the atmosphere to the general … effect”. Since CO2 was a byproduct of the burning of fossil fuels, these models implied that human activity was a contributor to this increase in global temperature. During the … since the ICE had been a mainstay of the automotive industry for over 80 years. Nonetheless over the next decade, GM spent billions of dollars experimenting and building …
… ethical standards. It operated worldwide under a formal Mission Statement: "We will demand that everything we do leads to a cleaner, healthier and safer environment." The mission … of Conduct, and Supplier Code of Conduct, all based on the company’s Vision Statement: "Making people's lives better by unleashing the power of Cummins." Cummins had driven its … Given its heavy R&D expense, Cummins had to find ways to spread the development costs over more units, leading it to expansion into global markets. Cummins had found a …
… module maker Sharp had bought Recurrent Energies and its pipeline of projects. Before that, the world’s largest module maker, First Solar, had bought a large developer. However, … vowing not to compete with their customers. Other module makers had opened manufacturing facilities in the United States to increase their visibility. In November of 2010, Chinese … to provide generous feed-in tariffs to solar developers. On the other hand, there was less political will for carbon reduction in the United States. The U.S. federal government …
… Not content to rest on these laurels, AXA transferred its CR team from the department that included the Communications function to a newly created department combining the … States, Europe, Africa, and Asia. AXA was hailed in the business press for savvy deal-making. The company took over struggling franchises and utilizing its strong balance sheet, … in mature markets, investing in emerging markets, and reducing the company’s overall cost of operations. Under the strategy, AXA made significant acquisitions and deals in Asia, …
… use of palm oil has been documented since ancient times, it is only in the past few decades that this tropical product has taken off in the international market. An invisible component … is headquartered in Singapore, the company’s palm plantations and much of its processing facilities were in Indonesia. By 2009, the expansion of GAR and other companies had made … in light of the competitive and regulatory environment of the countries in which it operated. The company’s leadership had described the agreement with Greenpeace as important, …
… “What we want is the book that every vice president threw in the trash because he would be embarrassed to show it to a … partner of Blue Wolf Capital Management in New York. “What we’re looking for is something that has a solid business at its core, but that has enough other extraneous problems that … fiber that was used to create high-quality paper products. The mill had been run as a cost center for various public companies, and it had not made money in 40 years. In 2008 it …
… its sustainability goals. The wind farm would supply electricity to 348 Walmart de México facilities in central Mexico, providing 18% of the electricity Walmart de México consumed in … sources. In addition to wind, solar and mini-hydroelectric projects were possibilities that Walmart de México could consider. Any project that Walmart de México undertook had to work in concert with Mexico’s electricity grid and rate-making structure. Mexico’s political leadership had announced a commitment to electricity …
… finance into the state market. This case study describes how this bank set up the Efficient Buildings Fund (EBF) and is iteratively improving it. This bank, which combines the features … projects are net cash flow-positive, meaning they generate more savings than the total cost of the project and debt service. Over the project lifetime and after debt service, … savings. After over a year of operation, the EBF has yielded action recommendations that decision makers can use to refine and iterate the program. The EBF is an innovative …