… While the use of palm oil has been documented since ancient times, it is only in the past few decades … 2000s, palm oil had become the most heavily traded edible oil in the world. Golden Agri Resources (GAR) has been in the forefront of this palm oil boom in Indonesia. Founded in 1996 … Systems and Nature Based SolutionsSustainable Finance and ESG Circularity Golden Agri Resources and Sustainability … Golden Agri Resources and Sustainability While the use of palm …
… In 2017, nearly 90% of the Connecticut Green Bank's operating funds came from public sources. How then could the Green Bank, whose mission rested on building trust, both insulate itself from the political winds from the north, and move … as possible, and alleviating energy poverty for low and moderate-income residents? Source YaleSchool of Management Areas of Focus Clean Energy Sustainable Finance and ESG Equity and …
… 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 than sheet steel in 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 …
… During the 1950s, a small band of meteorologists, physicists and chemists began conducting observations and building models linking an increase in CO2 and other gasses in the atmosphere to the general … 80 years. Nonetheless over the next decade, GM spent billions of dollars experimenting and building prototypes with an array of technologies; including diesel, battery, hybrid gas and …
… In the early 2000s, the Federal government of Mexico enacted a series of laws promoting the use of alternative fuels in gasoline, beginning with ethanol … bioethanol for some portion of gasoline fuel would meet a number of the country’s needs. First, it could help extend the country’ssupply of crude oil. The country's demand for …
… Andrea Illy is CEO of the global premium coffee company that bears his family’s name. As one might … into the cup. This disadvantages not only the grower but also the consumer – coffee sourced from good quality beans is hard to find. lly believes that the solution to the sad … that a “third-wave” of transformation in the coffee market was already starting. (The first wave issaid to have occurred when Maxwell House and Folgers made coffee a mass …
… As the Connecticut Green Bank works to design high-impact programs for the solar market, it … renewable portfolio standard (RPS) was being predominantly met with out-of-state resources from Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, yielding little economic development benefits … and, in general, bipartisan support from the Connecticut General Assembly. Source Yale Center for Business and the Environment Areas of Focus Equity and Justice Sustainable …
… Bryan Garcia, the President and CEO of the Connecticut Green Bank, had a big decision to make. Garcia is a member … for him. Garcia noted about natural gas, “If you're extending the infrastructure, you're buildingsomething into the system that will be around for a long time.” To provide insight … the long term consequences of their actions, the GC3’s data and metrics working group wasbuilding models that would both project Connecticut’s energy needs and the corresponding …
… In August of 2014, Mark Gentry, the Chief Operating Officer of Gifford Pinchot State University (GPSU) Foundation**, called Robert Farrington, a Managing Director at … there was very little consensus among the new group about how to respond. This was not the first time Farrington had received such a call. Commonfund managed the assets of 1,300 …
… Pepsi has a new challenge. In 2007, PepsiCo became the first consumer company to use the Carbon … at Pepsi … Carbon Analysis at Pepsi Pepsi has a new challenge. In 2007, PepsiCo became the first consumer company to use the Carbon Reduction Label (CRL) on packets of its Walkers …