… Most environmentalists had hoped that the December 2009 Climate Change Conference in … The conference also left in doubt the future of current mechanismssuch as the European CarbonMarket. The conference in Copenhagen came after 20 years of international conferences and …
… In August of 2014, Mark Gentry, the Chief Operating Officer of Gifford Pinchot State University (GPSU) Foundation**, called Robert Farrington, a Managing Director at … university clients were either actively engaged in discussions about their exposure to carbon in their portfolio or had just framed a policy concerning carbon investing. …
… Pepsi has a new challenge. In 2007, PepsiCo became the first consumer company to use the Carbon … of its Walkers Crisps potato chips in the United Kingdom. Developed by the U.K.-based Carbon Trust, the CRL is meant to communicate to consumers not only the individual product's …
… As the Connecticut Green Bank works to design high-impact programs for the solar market, it hassupported the design and adoption of legislation that expanded the … benefits to Connecticut. Decision makerssaw the state’s approach needed to be retooled to incentivize in-state market development. Solar-market demand was accelerating …
… At the end of 2010, Jifan Gao, Trina Solar’s founder and chairman, wondered how his company could expand its presence in the United Statesmarket. In the previous five years, Trina, a company with manufacturing and headquarters in … in solar development in Europe was the result of countries committed to reducing their carbon footprints and willing to provide generous feed-in tariffs to solar developers. On …
… Andrea Illy is CEO of the global premium coffee company that bears his family’s name. As one might expect, he is passionate about coffee – itsscience, its … health benefits, its taste, its beauty. Illy also has a dream that someday soon the coffee market might be transformed into something approaching the market for wine. Where …
… Like many countries, Australia has a large existing building stock that is responsible for a substantial … standards developed in recent years for new buildings do not address much of the existing carbon emissions. In the face of the long replacement time, focus hasshifted to retrofits … Financial institutions are reluctant to lend when any claim that they might make in the event of a default is junior to the property mortgage holder. This is why the Environmental …
… Santam, the leading short-term insurer in South Africa, was actively pursuing a strategy and … stabilize the region's food supply. However, many small landholders were priced out of the market for crop insurance. Unlike the government of many other countries, South Africa did … 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 …
… Suzlon, an India-based wind energy company, had made quite 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 countries across five … believed these first years were just a warm-up for what was to come (the company’smarket capitalization had doubled since its IPO in 2005). Global demand for wind energy …
… 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 … the truck bed and cab. Starting with the 2015 model year, the F-150 would be the first mass-market vehicle to be built with major body construction from aluminum. Alcoa spent $300 … makers were working on lighter alloys to compete with aluminum. Meanwhile, manufacturers of carbon-fiber based composites were touting their material as even lighter than aluminum and …