… geographic locations within the Eastern Interconnect of the United States for the years 2004-2006. This data was compiled by a joint-degree master’s student to help create a set of … To date, the investigator and a research assistant have completed simulations for the years 2004–2006. The write up of the results is still in progress. Use and Applications Professor …
… a splash in its first three-and-a-half years on the international stage. By the end of 2007, the company was the market leader in Asia and had completed projects in fourteen … for what was to come (the company’s market capitalization had doubled since its IPO in 2005). Global demand for wind energy remained strong and Suzlon had added significant … incorporation, Suzlon had become the dominant player in the Indian wind industry. In June 2004, Tanti hired a Dane, Per Hornung Pedersen, to lead Suzlon’s entrance into the global …
… president threw in the trash because he would be embarrassed to show it to a partner.” In 2008, this was the investment strategy of Adam Blumenthal, founding partner of Blue Wolf … operational distress and had difficult relationships with labor and government. In early 2008, as the economy was entering a recession, a colleague at another firm asked Blumenthal … as a cost center for various public companies, and it had not made money in 40 years. In 2008 it was owned by Neenah Paper, a small spin-off of non-core assets from Kimberly-Clark. …
… A survey was administered by three master’s students to 90 landowners and 692 forest users, and an additional 21 interviews were conducted of key informants, … investigators intend to use the information from this research to engage with both users and providers of ecosystems services in a trial “Payments for Ecosystem Services” … A survey was administered by three master’s students to 90 landowners and 692 forest users, and an additional 21 interviews were conducted of key informants, …
… 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 … the company’s palm plantations and much of its processing facilities were in Indonesia. By 2009, the expansion of GAR and other companies had made Indonesia the world’s leading … plantations to deforestation, Greenpeace, a global environmental NGO, began campaigning in 2005 to save the Indonesian rainforest. The group targeted GAR as Indonesia’s leading palm …
… it gained capital and experience. Then in an ill-fated attempt to scale-up during the early 2000s, SELCO created a franchised dealer network, seriously hurting the company financially … the International Finance Corporation (IFC), Hande was able to restructure the company in 2008. SELCO remained a for-profit business, but Hande was able to seek new investors more … SELCO’s activities could be scaled up to extend solar energy's benefits to more people. In 2009, SELCO was considering its plans for how the company might expand. The company decided …
… In the early 2000s, the Federal government of Mexico enacted a series of laws promoting the use of … to be "flex-fuel," engineered to run on either a gasoline-ethanol blend or pure ethanol. In 2008, ethanol from Brazil’s sugarcane crop had provided 55% of vehicle fuel, either in gasoline blends or as pure ethanol. With all these positive indications, in 2009 and in 2012 PEMEX introduced two tender offers requesting supplier bids to provide …
… Most environmentalists had hoped that the December 2009 Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen would finally produce a workable, global scheme … Kyoto framework, the European Union launched a cap-and-trade system for carbon credits in 2005, which led to an explosion of climate-related investment opportunities in Europe, Latin … carbon market grew quickly and was valued at $64 billion by the World Bank at the end of 2007. Besides the European Market, a number of regional, voluntary markets for carbon …
… assembling a global brand piece by piece. While Henri de Castries replaced Bébéar as CEO in 2000 and the company faced economic headwinds, AXA continued to produce strong returns. In … ("Hearts in Action") to encourage and support community engagement by employees, and in 2001 it established the Group’s first "sustainable development" function. But it wasn’t until 2008 that the company created a formal CR strategy. Following an internal study that argued …
… In the early 2000s, the CEO of General Electric (GE), Jeff Immelt, recognized this emerging pattern in … leadership, GE launched an environmental business initiative called "ecomagination" in 2005 that was rooted in four commitments: To double investment in clean research and … Sustainable Finance and ESG Clean Energy GE Ecomagination … GE Ecomagination In the early 2000s, the CEO of General Electric (GE), Jeff Immelt, recognized this emerging pattern in …