… most conducive to solar adoption, this new project seeks to develop more effective ways to communicate with low- and moderate-income (LMI) communities about solar. Defined as annual household income below $50,000 and between …
… information about this event. 8:30 – 9:00 Breakfast and Coffee 1st Floor Student Commons 9:00 – 9:15 Welcome … of California, Davis – Extreme Heat and Equity Market Physical Climate Risk Leonardo Martinez-Diaz, World Resources Institute – Climate Risks and Stock Returns 3:00 – … Management. He also serves as Director of the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy (www.yale.edu/envirocenter) and on the advisory board of the Yale Center for Business and the …
… sustainability. But we need to sharpen the narrative of natural capital accounting. Well-communicated natural capital accounts are necessary for moving beyond 20th-century … be agreed at the COP-15 in Kunming, China in October 2020. Simultaneously, the statistical community is revising the System of Environmental Economic Accounting—Experimental Ecosystem … for producing national economic statistics. Eighty-five countries and counting currently compile SEEA- compliant natural capital accounts and are promoting its use in decision …
… changes to help create a better future. A key framework for these necessary changes is becoming “net positive”—in short, courageous companies will thrive by giving more than they take from our communities and ecosystems. But…what would it take for companies to actually create more …
… decades that this tropical product has taken off in the international market. An invisible component of many products, palm oil can be found in cookies, in chocolates, in soaps, in … 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 … Widjaja family (operators of the Sinar Mas business group), GAR became the holding company for the family’s agribusinesses, including its Indonesian subsidiary PT SMART. The …
… The Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Challenge is a pitch competition, calling for graduate students to design a sustainable investment meant to achieve positive environmental or social impact as well as competitive financial returns. This year, the competition's finals will be held in Hong Kong on April 15, 2016, where there will be top …
… is the Co-Founder and President of Green Coast Enterprises (GCE), a sustainable real estate company focusing on community renewal projects in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. Mr. Bradshaw will be speaking about his experiences starting a “triple bottom line” company in the highly uncertain environment post-Katrina, while highlighting some of his …
… mile problem? She was specifically looking at this question in the realm of the two commuter rails operated by the MTA, Metro-North and Long Island Railroad. Harris started … and others. Harris' work involved coordinating e-waste and recycling policies across member companies and conducting research on e-waste to inform company strategies. Alli worked on coordinating data collection for sustainability …
… like to recruit. 44 percent of students are willing to accept a lower salary to work for a company with better environmental practices. Conversely, about one-fifth of respondents expressed an unwillingness to work for companies with bad environmental practices no matter what the salary. Students also … like to recruit. 44 percent of students are willing to accept a lower salary to work for a company with better environmental practices. Conversely, about one-fifth of respondents …