… the country's crop insurance. Crop insurance provided farmers with a hedge against climate, environmental, and other risks. Around 40% of grain farmers in South Africa purchased hail insurance, the most common … for crop insurance. To underwrite these agricultural policies, Santam used its riskassessment expertise and decades of weather-related data to estimate the frequency of major …
… This paper seeks to provide a consolidated list of risks that may help to inform investors’ due diligence processes and their understanding of … mitigation banking or other more nascent ecosystem services markets featuring similar risks. 2427 2417 Sustainable Finance and ESG Thriving Food Systems and Nature Based Solutions Navigating Wetland Mitigation Markets: A Study of Risks facing Entrepreneurs and Regulators … Navigating Wetland Mitigation Markets: A Study …
… Connecticut Green Bank, Eversource, United Illuminating and the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) to develop optimal policies and strategies that will advance … In addition to this field study on barriers and drivers, the project includes an assessment of market potential. 2485 2527 2528 2235 Clean Energy Sustainable Finance and ESG … in Connecticut - Barriers and Drivers Helle Gronli Joseph Schiavo (MBA '18, Master of Environmental Science '18) Philip Picotte (Master of Environmental Management '17) Amir …
… the market to the expected degree. Misalignment of incentives and perceived project risk are responsible for this underinvestment. Building owners and tenants do not always … make in the event of a default is junior to the property mortgage holder. This is why the Environmental Upgrade Agreement (EUA) plays an important role. The EUA is a deal structure … to attract private finance. It also addresses the misalignment of incentives by creating an Environmental Upgrade Charge (EUC) that allows a property owner and a tenant to more …
… the world’s leading exporter of crude palm oil. The palm oil boom, however, concerned environmentalists. Palm oil plantations had been carved out of precious rainforest and peat … by scientists that linked palm oil plantations to deforestation, Greenpeace, a global environmental NGO, began campaigning in 2005 to save the Indonesian rainforest. The group … the group’s allegations. However, in negotiations brokered by The Forest Trust, another environmental NGO, GAR sat down with Greenpeace and in often tense meetings hammered out an …
… of locals not only with their own operations, but also from all of their suppliers. For environmental NGOs, the Indonesian Palm Oil Pledge (as the agreement was named) represented … local and national officials to support their land claims and look away when it came to environmental regulation. In 2013, environmental campaigners believed they had found leverage to help change the palm oil …
… Connecticut Green Bank, Eversource, United Illuminating and the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) to develop optimal policies and strategies that will advance … Technologies in Connecticut - Market Potential Helle Gronli Fairuz Loutfi (Master of Environmental Management '16) Iliana Lazarova (Master of Environmental Management '16) Paul Molta (Master of Environmental Management '17) Prabudh …
… public policy and grow his company's bottom line. Under Immelt's leadership, GE launched an environmental business initiative called "ecomagination" in 2005 that was rooted in four … a business growth initiative. His candor earned him praise from leaders of powerful environmental NGOs like World Resources Institute President Jonathan Lash, who announced his support of the initiative at an ecomagination launch event in Washington D.C. Other environmental groups - particularly those that had fought GE on environmental legacy issues …
… Solar … Maximizing Land Use Benefits From Utility-Scale Solar Katie Siegner (Master of Environmental Management '19) Scott Wentzell (Master of Environmental Management '19) Maria Urrutia (Master of Environmental Management '19) Whitney Mann (Master of Environmental Management '19) Hallie …
… Environmental Innovation Sustainable Finance and ESG From Solutions to Scale: Considerations … to another. Gaps in funding often occur due to a combination of perceived outsized risk, large capital requirements, long development timelines, and other factors that are … and political advocacy Authors Neil Yeoh CEO & Founder at OnePointFive Midcareer Masters of Environmental Management 2020 Alumni Mikaela Bradbury Associate at DBL Partners MBA 2020 …