… Widjaja family (operators of the Sinar Mas business group), GAR became the holding company for the family’s agribusinesses, including its Indonesian subsidiary PT SMART. The company has assembled an array of assets through the entire palm oil value chain, from growing seedlings and managing over 450,000 hectares of plantation lands to running …
… Pepsi has a new challenge. In 2007, PepsiCo became the first consumer company to use the Carbon Reduction Label (CRL) on packets of its Walkers … juice. While the company has extolled its work online and the media, it has refrained from putting the CRL on juice cartons. Today, the company continues its carbon footprinting …
… A small team led by Kevin Teng and backed by MBS leadership as well as the resort's parent company, Las Vegas Sands Corp., had worked hard to make operations and facilities more … top-ten species, and 50% of all of its seafood - about two million pieces per year - fromresponsible sources by 2020. With some success under its belt, the MBS team was looking to make its operations more sustainable. Was the resort on the right path? What projects should MBS prioritize and how should they make decisions? How should MBS …
… Palm oil is everywhere. Not only is it in the news, it is also an ingredient in roughly half of the products we buy. However, it is not … a biofuel. As a versatile plant with efficient, high yields, oil palm, and the oil derived from it has become a multibillion-dollar ($44 billion in 2013 according to Bloomberg ) … those impacts stem from deforestation. In Indonesia and Malaysia alone (the two countries responsible for 85% of palm oil production), more than 3.7 million hectares of natural …
… 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 … pressured them to reassess their plans. Wilmar, in particular, faced difficult choices. The company was the largest trader of palm oil in the world, selling in Europe, China, and … to environmental concerns had their own set of questions to consider and unravel. What was the best policy for the long-term social welfare of Indonesia? How could the …
… 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 – … expertise they contribute to every cup. Unfortunately, the current coffee market differs from such an ideal. Coffee growers in most parts of the globe work at a barely subsistence … that a “third-wave” of transformation in the coffee market was already starting. (The first wave is said to have occurred when Maxwell House and Folgers made coffee a mass …
… 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 … 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 the dining hall menu issue and had become the …
… into CI’s advocacy work and mission? Whom should CI charge for the use of the software, and what factors should they take into account when deciding how much to charge? And with … increasingly wary of environmental organizations pushing an agenda at the expense of what academics saw as intellectual honesty, would CI be able to drum up enough enthusiasm … into CI’s advocacy work and mission? Whom should CI charge for the use of the software, and what factors should they take into account when deciding how much to charge? And with …
… energy developer in Washington, DC. Nora works with potential partners and project sites from initial engagement through project scoping, design, and implementation. Her passion is … energy developer in Washington, DC. Nora works with potential partners and project sites from initial engagement through project scoping, design, and implementation. Her passion is …