… Sammaan brought together a stellar group of designers, architects, and social science researchers to tackle one of the developing world's leading problems – open defecation in … give the project any more money. Observers wondered if the project was fatally stalled and what had gone wrong? Project Sammaan had started promisingly enough. In 2011 and early 2012, … But despite these best of intentions, the project faced setback after setback. There were unexpected delays and misunderstandings within the group. In late 2013, the project faced …
… Pinchot State University (GPSU) Foundation**, called Robert Farrington, a Managing Director at Commonfund. The GPSU student government had just presented the Foundation with a … portfolio. The Foundation’s investment committee had formed a subcommittee to consider what to do, but Gentry admitted that there was very little consensus among the new group … exposure to carbon, what would be the most meaningful measure of carbon intensity? When it came to public investments, would screening, weighting or forms of impact investing …
… When Walmart de México y Centroamérica decided to buy the power generated by the Electrica del Valle de México’s (EVM) wind farm, EVM’s struggling project received a significant boost. While the proposed wind farm was located in an area with … equity position in further energy projects, rather than simply serving as an off-taker? What technologies should Walmart de México employ to achieve its renewable energy goals? …
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… Santam, the leading short-term insurer in South Africa, was actively pursuing a strategy and associated initiatives to build … in South Africa purchased hail insurance, the most common policy in agriculture. In years when crops were damaged before they could be harvested and sold, crop insurance provided … 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 …
… ‘convinced’ local and national officials to support their land claims and look away when it came to environmental regulation. In 2013, environmental campaigners believed they … many environmentalists believed that the agreement represented a breakthrough. The events of 2015 suggested otherwise, forcing businesses, NGOs and sympathetic government … to environmental concerns had their own set of questions to consider and unravel. What was the best policy for the long-term social welfare of Indonesia? How could the …
… Throughout the world, Cummins Inc. meant diesels. The company designed, manufactured, distributed, and serviced diesel and natural gas engines, for transportation, … and component systems that met increasingly strict emissions standards. Through extensive research and development it created diesels that complied to evolving standards, ranging … market? How could Cummins play a positive role as China addressed its environmental issues? What was the appropriate definition for strategy and functional excellence in governmental …
… 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 – its science, its health benefits, its taste, its … in the coffee market was already starting. (The first wave is said to have occurred when Maxwell House and Folgers made coffee a mass commodity, the second wave when Starbucks …
… diesel, battery, hybrid gas and electric systems, and hydrogen fuel cells. While GM researchers had made progress by 1998, the technical hurdles were steep; and GM believed it … friendly automobile, they did not want to give up the performance they had come to expect from ICE-powered vehicles. Indeed, the trend in the US during the 1990s had been to … 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 …
… “What we want is the book that every vice president threw in the trash because he would be embarrassed to show it to a partner.” In … considered the investment, he asked himself, “Is there a reason for this mill to exist if you fix all of these problems? And the answer to that is yes.” The remaining question, then, …