… During the 1950s, a small band of meteorologists, physicists and chemists began conducting … the burning of fossil fuels, these models implied that human activity was a contributor to this increase in global temperature. During the 1980s, the models drew more scientific … had started looking atthe greenhouse effect in the mid-1980s. The wide-ranging discussionswithin GM had led to an ambitious program to improve the efficiency of internal combustion …
… NY Green Bank (NYGB), New York State’s $1-billion clean-energy fund, and a young new efficiency company named Sealed signed … investors are increasingly familiar with residential energy-efficiency financing, they don’t use energy savings in their underwriting criteria. So the cost per project can be too low for significant resourcesto be dedicated to vetting each one. Plus, the methods of energy-efficiency upgrades …
… With funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, ProjectSammaan broughttogether a stellar group of designers, architects, and … Could these insights be applied to construction of actual toilets? And what could this experience teach others about an overall solution to the problem? Equity and Justice …
… In the early 2000s, the Federal government of Mexico enacted a series of laws promoting the use of alternative fuels in gasoline, beginning with ethanol from sugarcane. This meantthatthe national oil company PEMEX had to find waysto implementthis policy. …
… Asthe Connecticut Green Bank worksto design high-impact programs for the solar market, it has … renewable portfolio standard (RPS) was being predominantly metwith out-of-state resources from Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, yielding little economic development benefits … market’s growth led to a proposal for fine-tuning the incentive programsthe state offered. This led to the creation of a bill, HB 6838 (Public Act 15-194), proposing a flexible …
… In the early 2000s, the CEO of General Electric (GE), Jeff Immelt, recognized this emerging pattern in public policy and consumer behavior, and he spotted an opportunity … 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 …
… In August of 2014, Mark Gentry, the Chief Operating Officer of Gifford PinchotState University … admitted thatthere was very little consensus among the new group about how to respond. This was notthe firsttime Farrington had received such a call. Commonfund managed the … any change to their investmentstrategy would jibe withtheir fiduciary responsibility to donors? Commonfund faced a differentset of considerations asthey helped their clients …
… “What we want isthe book that every vice presidentthrew in the trash because he would be embarrassed to show itto a partner.” In 2008, this wasthe investmentstrategy of Adam Blumenthal, founding partner of Blue Wolf Capital … as high as 70 percent. The Nova Scotia mill had been on the market for a year, but few buyers were interested, and it wasslated for closure. But as Blumenthal considered the …
… After the recession, the Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank (RIIB), a quasi-public state entity, soughtto bring much-needed clean-energy finance into the state market. This case study describes how this bank set up the Efficient Buildings Fund (EBF) and is … walk through the creation of the EBF and some of the factorsthat have led to itssuccess. Source Center for Business and The Environment at Yale Areas of FocusSustainable Finance and …
… Suzlon, an India-based wind energy company, had made quite a splash in its firstthree-and-a-half years on the international stage. By the end of 2007, the company wasthe market leader in Asia and had completed projects in fourteen countries across five continents. But many investors believed these first years were … wind turbines, Tanti discovered that wind energy was an even better businessthan textiles. Within six years of its incorporation, Suzlon had become the dominant player in the Indian …