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… a contributor to this increase in global temperature. During the 1980s, the models drew more scientific adherents as additional observations lent further support to the theory. In … were a substantial contributor of CO2 to the atmosphere, scientists at General Motors, the world’s largest automaker, had started looking at the greenhouse effect in the mid-1980s. … more efficient diesel engines on the U.S. market. Meanwhile, international efforts to prevent global warming had accelerated. A series of UN-sponsored conferences, bringing …
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… uses has stimulated cultivation and oil extraction; annual global production has increased more than nine-fold since 1980. By the 2000s, palm oil had become the most heavily traded edible oil in the world. Golden Agri Resources (GAR) has been in the forefront of this palm oil boom in Indonesia. Founded in 1996 by the influential Widjaja family (operators of the Sinar Mas business group), GAR became the holding company for the family’s agribusinesses, including …
… 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 … electrical plants had mounted and the price of fossil fuels had skyrocketed. With little more than a cell phone and the internet, Pedersen set to work building Suzlon’s … Transmissions, a Belgian manufacturer of wind turbine gearboxes, and thereby became the world’s most vertically integrated wind turbine manufacturer as well as a supplier to some …
… Throughout the world, Cummins Inc. meant diesels. The company designed, manufactured, distributed, and … Given its heavy R&D expense, Cummins had to find ways to spread the development costs over more units, leading it to expansion into global markets. Cummins had found a business advantage in its early entry into China – first meeting China’s need for high …
… maker Sharp had bought Recurrent Energies and its pipeline of projects. Before that, the world’s largest module maker, First Solar, had bought a large developer. However, other … downstream integration, vowing not to compete with their customers. Other module makers had opened manufacturing facilities in the United States to increase their visibility. In … industry itself. At the beginning of 2011, many analysts warned that PV manufacturers had more capacity than demand and that solar modules were passing from a seller’s to a buyer’s …
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