… corporations have increasingly stepped forward as leaders in the realm of social and environmental sustainability. By re-thinking their operations and products, companies are … stories, speakers provide a set of possible roadmaps for students to follow (or avoid). From the outside, roles at the intersection of business and the environment can be difficult … Energy Corporate Sustainability Environmental Innovation Equity and Justice Sustainable Finance and ESG Thriving Food Systems and Nature Based Solutions Pathways in Business and …
… Innovator Community comprises students, partners and others who are eager to engage in environmental innovation. The coordinators of this community will play a critical role in … well community engagement activities such discussion groups, mixers, etc. are within the purview of this program. There are currently three different initiatives within this program: … students, staff and alumni interested in environmental entrepreneurship and innovation through: Green Innovation Lunch Deep Dives This series invites peer discussion around …
… palm oil trading companies signed an agreement to end deforestation, development of peat lands and exploitation of locals not only with their own operations, but also from all of … season was the worst in nearly two decades, as would-be oil palm growers set fire to rainforests and peatlands to clear them for planting. The demand for palm oil had skyrocketed … standard, many environmentalists believed that the agreement represented a breakthrough. The events of 2015 suggested otherwise, forcing businesses, NGOs and sympathetic …
… economy. And, as fires set to clear land for palm oil plantations blazed in Indonesia throughout the fall of 2015, covering the region in haze, the ubiquitous commodity was … responsible for 85% of palm oil production), more than 3.7 million hectares of natural forests have been cleared in recent years to make way for plantations. This land use change … related to palm oil has occurred with companies and individuals setting fire to the landscape. In 2015, fires raged for months in Indonesia, severely impacting Indonesian and …
… Initiated in 2023, this series is designed as a peer discussion group covering critical developments in environmental innovation. The goal is to kickstart discussion among small groups of … Innovation - Lunch Deep Dives … Program Green Innovation - Lunch Deep Dives Initiated in 2023, this series is designed as a peer discussion group covering critical developments in …
… on the Sustainable Development Goals Findings from a Global Survey for Business Schools Overview A new global study measuring awareness and engagement of the UN’s Sustainable … governments, in achieving the SDGs. The importance of partnership between these agents came through as a priority. Respondents are using the voting booth and short-term economic … Nature Based Solutions Circularity Equity and Justice Related Programs Rising Leaders on Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change … Rising Leaders on the Sustainable …
… On February 23, 2007, your 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 …
… 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 extraction and refining mills and marketing its own brand of cooking oil. … 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 …
… business had grown rapidly over the previous decades. The company was formed in the 1980s through the merger of a few mid-sized French insurance firms. From the beginning, AXA’s CEO … to produce an “integrated report” that would define the Group’s next strategy for the 2020 time horizon, measured by a set of metrics reflecting in an integrated way the financial, but also the social and environmental, value created by the company. Corporate Sustainability Environmental …
… Most environmentalists had hoped that the December 2009 Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen … investment opportunities in Europe, Latin America and Asia. A new industry around carbon finance emerged, with firms like Climate Change Capital (CCC) of London taking the lead in … World Bank at the end of 2007. Besides the European Market, a number of regional, voluntary markets for carbon allowances formed in the rest of developed world. However, the failure of …