… Like many countries, Australia has a large existing buildingstock that is responsible for a substantial … replacementtime, focus hasshifted to retrofits and upgradesto existing buildingstock. This would both reduce the amount of greenhouse gasesthatthese buildings emit and reduce … Financial institutions are reluctantto lend when any claim thatthey might make in the event of a default is junior to the property mortgage holder. This is why the Environmental …
… A global leader in the insurance and asset management business, AXA had risen to the top ranks in terms of … for the company, which was adapted for each of the company’s major operating activities. This metric allowed AXA leadership to assessthe company’s CR work and provided a framework … new metrics was a tall order, but would be another step to establishing CR inside AXA. Eventually, the company aspired to produce an “integrated report” that would define 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 EfficientBuildings Fund (EBF) and is iteratively improving it. This bank, which combinesthe features …
… 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 ManagementSystem certification. Beyond the physical plant, MBS looked to create … other aspects of the facility? Did a focus on sustainability make sense for a luxury brand associated with gambling? More globally, how could the MBSteam ensure thatthe work …
… 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 … Jonathan Lash, who announced hissupport of the initiative at an ecomagination launch event in Washington D.C. Other environmental groups - particularly those that had fought GE …
… Atthe end of 2010, Jifan Gao, Trina Solar’s founder and chairman, wondered how his company … had bought a large developer. However, other module makers had made a point of not pursuing thistype of downstream integration, vowing notto compete with their customers. Other … had more capacity than demand and thatsolar modules were passing from a seller’sto a buyer’s market. Atthe same time, the oversupply was pushing prices down further so that …
… 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 … more efficient diesel engines on the U.S. market. Meanwhile, international effortsto prevent global warming had accelerated. A series of UN-sponsored conferences, bringing …
… When Walmart de México y Centroamérica decided to buythe power generated by the Electrica del Valle de México’s (EVM) wind farm, EVM’sstruggling project received a significant boost. While the proposed …
… Santam, the leading short-term insurer in South Africa, was actively pursuing a strategy and … expertise and decades of weather-related data to estimate the frequency of major weather events. It was widely acknowledged that climate change was likely to increase the frequency … crop insurance business in the rest of Africa. The company faced considerable challenges in this area as crop insurance had low penetration in other parts of Africa. Company officials …
… On July 12, 2017, the Harvard Kennedy School of Government bestowed the prestigious Ash award in policy … Using transaction enablers and risk mitigants like loan loss reserve funds, interest rate buy-downs, subordinated debt, or warehousing facilities, the Green Bank lowered the cost of … funds came from public sources. How then could the Green Bank, whose mission rested on buildingtrust, both insulate itself from the political winds from the north, and move …