… 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 …
… This project explores the mechanisms that allow actors in different settings to coordinate and create the institutions required to sustain a new market. What is interesting about renewable energy in general and offshore wind in particular is that, acrosssettings, the issues that preventmarket emergence are relatively simple and well understood; the stakeholder groups are …
… 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 …
… 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 …
… Should policymakers incentivize electric vehicle (EV) purchases first or invest in charging stations first? … thisso-called chicken-and-egg dilemma and provides recommendations for growing the EV market and increasing investment in EV charging stations. We compare EV markets acrossstates with a focus on New York, which falls in the middle of the 50 states …
… Low productivity in agriculture is a significant development challenge, yet many processes used to increase land productivity … to adopt technology, and whether the technology is correctly used. Social science and marketing literature on diffusion of technologies hasstressed the importance of social …
… 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 …
… The objective of this project was to use both the travel cost method and the contingent valuation method to estimate … professionals. The results indicate that residents attribute monetary value to nonmarket forest goods and services. The present value WTP for drinking water from protected …
… 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 …