… over 450,000 hectares of plantation lands to running extraction and refining mills and marketing its own brand of cooking oil. While GAR is headquartered in Singapore, the … the world’s leading exporter of crude palm oil. The palm oil boom, however, concerned environmentalists. Palm oil plantations had been carved out of precious rainforest and peat … by scientists that linked palm oil plantations to deforestation, Greenpeace, a global environmental NGO, began campaigning in 2005 to save the Indonesian rainforest. The group …
… 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 agreement was named) represented … local and national officials to support their land claims and look away when it came to environmental regulation. In 2013, environmental campaigners believed they had found leverage to help change the palm oil …
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… public policy and grow his company's bottom line. Under Immelt's leadership, GE launched an environmental business initiative called "ecomagination" in 2005 that was rooted in four … a business growth initiative. His candor earned him praise from leaders of powerful environmental NGOs like World Resources Institute President Jonathan Lash, who announced his support of the initiative at an ecomagination launch event in Washington D.C. Other environmental groups - particularly those that had fought GE on environmental legacy issues …
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… make in the event of a default is junior to the property mortgage holder. This is why the Environmental Upgrade Agreement (EUA) plays an important role. The EUA is a deal structure … to attract private finance. It also addresses the misalignment of incentives by creating an Environmental Upgrade Charge (EUC) that allows a property owner and a tenant to more … Sustainable Finance and ESG Clean Energy Australia Clean Energy Finance Corporation Environmental Upgrade Agreements … Australia Clean Energy Finance Corporation Environmental …
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… Connecticut Green Bank, Eversource, United Illuminating and the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) to develop optimal policies and strategies that will advance … in Connecticut - Barriers and Drivers Helle Gronli Joseph Schiavo (MBA '18, Master of Environmental Science '18) Philip Picotte (Master of Environmental Management '17) Amir Chireh Mehr (MBA '17, Master of Environmental Management …
… pricing works to shift the cost of carbon from increased healthcare costs and exacerbated environmental damage to payment at the source of pollution. By doing so, it incentivizes … … Internal Carbon Pricing: Policy Framework and Case Studies Luke Elder (MBA '19, Master of Environmental Management '19) This report seeks to address the question of how an … pricing works to shift the cost of carbon from increased healthcare costs and exacerbated environmental damage to payment at the source of pollution. By doing so, it incentivizes …
… Do sustainable farmland investments deliver financial, environmental and social returns? With the rise of impact investing, there has been a jump … Strategies … Sustainable Farmland Investment Strategies Meaghan McGrath (MBA '16, Master of Environmental Management '16) Lucyann Murray (MBA '17, Master of Forestry '17) Todd Cort Do sustainable farmland investments deliver financial, environmental and social returns? With the rise of impact investing, there has been a jump …