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… most parts of the globe work at a barely subsistence level. One bad harvest (made all the more likely by the ravages of climate change) or a sudden decline in the commodity price of … circle” that draws the grower, the roaster, the barista and customer together. Growers with better knowledge of the market will work to improve their crops or experiment with new … more equitable and coffee better-tasting. Equity and Justice Thriving Food Systems and Nature Based SolutionsSustainable Finance and ESG Coffee 2016 … Coffee 2016 Andrea Illy is …
… parent company, Las VegasSands Corp., had worked hard to make operations and facilitiesmore resource-efficient. The resort had garnered a Green Mark Platinum Award and was … center also became the first facility in Southeast Asia to obtain ISO 20121 Sustainable Events Management System certification. Beyond the physical plant, MBS looked to create … partnership with National University of Singapore BusinessSchool Thriving Food Systems and Nature Based Solutions Equity and Justice Marina Bay Sands … Marina Bay SandsStanding at …
… under a formal Mission Statement: "We will demand that everything we do leads to a cleaner, healthier and safer environment." The mission statement had led to a detailed corporate Code … Code of Conduct, all based on the company’s Vision Statement: "Making people's livesbetter by unleashing the power of Cummins." Cummins had driven itssuccess on its ability to … 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 …
… With funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Project Sammaan brought together a stellar group of designers, architects, and … to tackle one of the developing world's leading problems – open defecation in crowded urbansettings. Initial planning and surveys began in 2011. With an official kickoff meeting … and Cuttack, to build 120 community toilets in city slums by February 2013. Furthermore, the project team hoped to develop research from the effort to create a model that …
… 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 … participated in discussions of climate change and investigated ways of making the country more resilient to the coming changes in weather. There were a variety of new models for crop …
… Bryan Garcia, the President and CEO of the Connecticut Green Bank, had a big decision to make. Garcia is a member … and home heating). But the one constant had been the state’s nuclear power, which supplied more than one-fifth of Connecticut’s energy needs. The nuclear power all came from a massive … further pressure on keeping or expanding nuclear. On the other hand, there are ongoing health and safety, environment, and security concerns about nuclear power, as well as …
… During the 1950s, a small band of meteorologists, physicists and chemists began conducting observations and … a contributor to this increase in global temperature. During the 1980s, the models drew morescientific adherents as additional observations lent further support to the theory. In … 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 …
… In early 2014 Alcoa announced that Ford's F-150 pick-up trucks, the best-selling vehicles in the U.S., would use aluminum1 rather … standards, automakers had begun using aluminum to reduce vehicle mass, allowing a smaller, more efficient engine to produce the same performance with increased miles per gallon. For … campaign about the strength of aluminum, but consumer reactions were not yet known. Furthermore, the steel industry was expected to promote steel's virtues to maintain its place as …
… Most environmentalists had hoped that the December 2009 Climate Change Conference in … threat of climate change. The NY Times observed: "The messy compromise mirrored the chaotic nature of the conference, which virtually all participantssaid had been badly organized and … convened as the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - issued two more climate change assessment reports, pointing to human activity as the primary reason for …
… Harish Hande and the company he founded, SELCO, provide solar electricity for lighting and power … in 2008. SELCO remained a for-profit business, but Hande was able to seek new investorsmore aligned with its mission. In addition, Hande was able to keep hissales and service … for redesigning off-the-shelf solar electric components to suit the particular needs of the urban and rural poor. The SELCO design process began with an extensive needs assessment of a …