… investment banking firm receives an urgent call from James D. Marston, Regional Director of Environmental Defense's Texas Office and head of the Texas Climate Initiative. You meet with … utility TXU, and he needs your immediate feedback. The private equity firms want two environmental groups - Environmental Defense (also known as the Environmental Defense Fund or EDF) and NRDC - at …
… architects, and social science researchers to tackle one of the developing world's leading problems – open defecation in crowded urban settings. Initial planning and surveys began in … 2012, the group had come together, to combine their disparate skills to create innovative approaches to the problem, focusing on India's urban poor. The project incorporated multiple … about an overall solution to the problem? Equity and Justice Sustainable Finance and ESG Environmental Innovation Project Sammaan … Project Sammaan With funding from the Bill & …
… 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 … to “green” not only their own operations but also that of their suppliers, perhaps the problems in the palm oil industry could be resolved. So when Indonesian Palm Oil Pledge …
… 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 … the Indonesian government to frame the requirements for ISPO. But would GAR’s conciliatory approach to working with so many groups be sufficient to satisfy all of the stakeholders? … the Indonesian government to frame the requirements for ISPO. But would GAR’s conciliatory approach to working with so many groups be sufficient to satisfy all of the stakeholders? …
… alternative to other vegetable oils, production pressures have led to undeniable environmental and social impacts on both global and local scales. The most notable of those … industry is becoming an increasingly hot topic for economists, industry, governments, and environmental and social activists. As palm oil production expands, companies, NGOs, … experimenting with palm oil can learn from Indonesia’s attempts. The focus is on the environmental and social impacts of palm oil, with an emphasis on exploring existing …
… cleaner engines to address new emissions regulations that addressed China's critical problem with air pollution. Steve Chapman, Cummins Group Vice President - China and … wondered if the company should change the way it handled government relations. Cummins’s approach in China had similarities to its approach in the United States before setting up … its position in the market? How could Cummins play a positive role as China addressed its environmental issues? What was the appropriate definition for strategy and functional …
… 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 …
… is something that has a solid business at its core, but that has enough other extraneous problems that most people at a private equity fund decide it’s not worth doing,” he said. In … had a good core business. The mill also presented some significant problems: financial, environmental, political, labor, and operational. With the bursting of the housing bubble, … question, then, was how much to pay. Equity and Justice Sustainable Finance and ESG Environmental Innovation Northern Pulp: A Private Equity Firm Resurrects a Troubled Paper …
… 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 …
… Department of Energy’s Office of Policy & International Affairs from 2009 to 2013. CEW approached REC with a win-win proposal describing how PAYS® could help build the local … in the area is a high priority for local stakeholders. The program has been successfully resolving the issues related to information technology, skills development, staff availability, and resource access that it faced initially. Its approach has included on-the-job training for contractors and other staff. Partnering with …