… 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 … operations. In the energy area, the company was hoping to receive 50% of its energy from renewable sources by 2015, even in a period of rapid growth, increasing its square … energy projects. Gómez, Walmart de México’s Director of Sustainability, was considering ways the project financing structure might be further adapted to allow Walmart de México to …
… group of students who wished to see the dining halls serve more organic food. With support from the university, they started a pilot project to introduce local, seasonal food into the … and helped inspire the Yale Dining Hall to move toward more organic and locally grown food sources (though the vast majority of the food comes from sources other than the Yale Farm). Within a few years the founding group had expanded beyond …
… In 2014, the four largest palm oil trading companies signed an agreement to end deforestation, development … of peat lands and exploitation of locals not only with their own operations, but also from all of their suppliers. For environmental NGOs, the Indonesian Palm Oil Pledge (as the … companies ‘convinced’ local and national officials to support their land claims and look away when it came to environmental regulation. In 2013, environmental campaigners believed …
… an environmental business initiative called "ecomagination" in 2005 that was rooted in four commitments: To double investment in clean research and development (R&D) to $1.5 billion by 2010; To increase revenues from ecomagination products to $20 billion by 2010; To reduce the volume and intensity of … keep the public informed about ecomagination targets, progress and results. Along with the four commitments came a massive ecomagination advertising and branding campaign that was …
… and engines were all designed to increase power, improve efficiency, and reduce pollution from diesel engines of all sizes. From its origins in a small Indiana town 100 years … under a formal Mission Statement: "We will demand that everything we do leads to a cleaner, healthier and safer environment." The mission statement had led to a detailed … Cummins with a major market opportunity. 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 …
… a series of laws promoting the use of alternative fuels in gasoline, beginning with ethanol from sugarcane. This meant that the national oil company PEMEX had to find ways to implement this policy. Nevertheless, in spite of efforts by various government … change commitments for the Government of Mexico, you have been tasked to suggest the best way forward to make ethanol production a reality in Mexico. Developed in partnership with …
… of intense political negotiations, on October 26, legislators swept $16.3 million annually from the Connecticut Green Bank’s budget over the following two years. In 2017, nearly 90% of the Connecticut Green Bank's operating funds came from public sources. How then could the Green Bank, whose mission rested on building trust, both insulate … In 2017, nearly 90% of the Connecticut Green Bank's operating funds came from public sources. How then could the Green Bank, whose mission rested on building trust, both insulate …
… sustainability indexes. 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 … Inside AXA in 1990, the company created AXA Atout Coeur ("Hearts in Action") to encourage and support community engagement by employees, and in 2001 it established the Group’s … for the 2020 time horizon, measured by a set of metrics reflecting in an integrated way the financial, but also the social and environmental, value created by the company. …
… developing B2C channels to tap into the growing market of local contractors and do-it-yourselfers looking to add solar panels to their roofs. Trina had already partnered with … anonymous, but the rapid expansion of the market had led many of the companies to seek new ways to differentiate themselves. For example, Yingli had bought a sponsorship of a German … that PV manufacturers had more capacity than demand and that solar modules were passing from a seller’s to a buyer’s market. At the same time, the oversupply was pushing prices …
… renewable portfolio standard (RPS) was being predominantly met with out-of-state resources from Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, yielding little economic development benefits to … renewable portfolio standard (RPS) was being predominantly met with out-of-state resources from Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, yielding little economic development benefits …