… 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 …
… Palm oil is everywhere. Not only is it in the news, it is also an ingredient in roughly half of the … to make way for plantations. This land use change plays a major role in driving global climate change , with deforestation accounting for 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions. … related to palm oil has occurred with companies and individualssetting fire to the landscape. In 2015, fires raged for months in Indonesia, severely impacting Indonesian and …
… Standing at water’s edge, Marina Bay Sands (MBS) annually attracted 45 million visitors who … center also became the first facility in Southeast Asia to obtain ISO 20121 Sustainable Events Management System certification. Beyond the physical plant, MBS looked to create … In 2013, MBS had started offering a customizable "Green Meeting" package. From five green events in 2013, the program had grown to 142 in 2017, grossing over S$30 million in revenue. …
… 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 …
… The Yale Farm was founded in 2003 by a group of students who wished to see the dining hallsserve more organic food. With support from the … local, seasonal food into the menu of one of Yale's undergraduate residential colleges. The experiment was a success with both students and dining hall staff, and helped inspire the …
… While the use of palm oil has been documented since ancient times, it is only in the past few decades that this tropical … more than nine-fold since 1980. By the 2000s, palm oil had become the most heavily traded edible oil in the world. Golden Agri Resources (GAR) has been in the forefront of …
… In 2017, Conservation International (CI) and Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), which had collaborated on building a software platform named the Wildlife Management Analyticssystem or WMA, were looking for a way to market the product. The WMA, which made camera …
… A growing pool of data enumerates companies’ exposure to the trillions of dollars in risk from the climate crisis and other megatrends. According to Yale's Todd Cort, improving standards for this ESG data is helping investors get better returns and targeting capital toward the companies that are responding. Thriving Food Systems and Nature Based …
… Solar developers are planting native flowers and grasses near—or even in between—solar panels, addressing the twin problems of pollinator decline and climate change. Thriving Food Systems and Nature Based Solutions Clean Energy Pollinator-Friendly Solar Could be a Win-Win for Climate and Landowners, but Greenwashing is a Worry … Pollinator-Friendly Solar Could be a …