… 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 him and learn that he needs help preparing for an unusual … be representing them. Marston certainly knows TXU, given EDF's battles over TXU's proposed new coal-fired plants. However, there is much uncertainty in this new opportunity - Marston …
… the features of a green bank and an infrastructure bank, was developed under new political leadership. The recently-elected state treasurer, Seth Magaziner, proposed the EBF to Gina … walk through the creation of the EBF and some of the factors that have led to its success. Source Center forBusiness and The Environment at Yale Areas of Focus Sustainable Finance and ESG Clean Energy …
… the end of 2007, the company was the market leader in Asia and had completed projects in fourteen countries across five continents. But many investors believed these first years were … was to come (the company’s market capitalization had doubled since its IPO in 2005). Global demandfor wind energy remained strong and Suzlon had added significant capacity. Indian … After commissioning two wind turbines, Tanti discovered that wind energy was an even better business than textiles. Within six years of its incorporation, Suzlon had become the …
… and helped inspire the Yale Dining Hall to move toward more organic and locally grown food sources (though the vast majority of the food comes from sources other than the Yale Farm). … Food Project. They obtained financial and operational support from the university, transformed a neglected acre of land on the north side of the campus into a large garden, and … within the university and beyond, and it would like to increase its participation with the New Haven community. Your assignment is to develop a program through which the Yale Farm …
… investment strategy of Adam Blumenthal, founding partner of Blue Wolf Capital Management in New York. “What we’re looking for is something that has a solid business at its core, but that has enough other extraneous problems that most people at a …
… for these buildings to be replaced, the rigorous standards developed in recent years fornew buildings do not address much of the existing carbon emissions. In the face of the long … both the investment cost for energy-efficiency upgrades and the subsequent cost savings. Source Yale Center forBusiness and the Environment Areas of Focus Sustainable Finance and ESG Clean Energy …
… with a simple yet powerful energy-efficiency-financing product. To date, the program has performed much better than expected. Average realized savings have been on the order of 50% of … 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 … to create a stakeholder collaboration supported by USDA funding. Source The Yale Center forBusiness and the Environment Areas of Focus Clean Energy Download file. … The Upgrade to …
… an accessible financing solution for independent local contractors to support the rising demandfor residential and commercial solar systems. This case study focuses on the … structure of the program and presents the lessons learned from implementation challenges. Source The Yale Center forBusiness and the Environment Areas of Focus Sustainable Finance and ESG Clean Energy …
… Before the federal government discontinued the United States Department of Energy’s (DOE) … room for creativity and adaptability to different states, locations, and projects. Source The Yale Center forBusiness and the Environment Areas of Focus Sustainable Finance and ESG Clean Energy …
… (CI) and Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), which had collaborated on building a software platform named the Wildlife Management Analytics system or WMA, were looking for a way to market … called Wildlife Insights. CI, however, anticipated that scientists, governments, NGOs, businesses, and landowners might want to operate "private instances" of the software, i.e., … called Wildlife Insights. CI, however, anticipated that scientists, governments, NGOs, businesses, and landowners might want to operate "private instances" of the software, i.e., …