… and chairman, wondered how his company could expand its presence in the United States market. In the previous five years, Trina, a company with manufacturing and headquarters in … and Suntech Power, in supplying modules to the United States. Gao had targeted the U.S. market in 2010, and Trina had increased its sales in the country during 2009. But other … a solar module plant near San Diego, California. Sharp and Solarworld, manufacturers based outside the U.S., had long operated some manufacturing within the U.S. Despite having …
… 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 connoisseurs discuss the fine points of various origin coffees and … prices.) Specialty coffee roasters had worked to build cafes and brands around origin-based beans sold directly to the roasters without reference to the commodity prices of …
… conference also left in doubt the future of current mechanisms such as the European Carbon Market. The conference in Copenhagen came after 20 years of international conferences and … nations to reduce their emissions by 2012 and created a trading system for credits based on the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. Responding to the Kyoto framework, the … Carbon Funds as the cornerstone of its long-term business strategy, but the firm was also investing in energy-conscious real estate and private equity to continue its goal of …
… had led to a detailed corporate Code of Conduct, and Supplier Code of Conduct, all based on the company’s Vision Statement: "Making people's lives better by unleashing the … Rather than spend research dollars, many other manufacturers had bowed out of the diesel market, leaving Cummins with a major market opportunity. Given its heavy R&D expense, … relations? Were there lessons in the U.S. model that could apply to China? Were approaches developed for China applicable to other developing countries? Equity and Justice …
… 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’s market capitalization had doubled since its IPO in 2005). Global demand for wind energy …
… to the top ranks in terms of corporate responsibility (CR) as well. In 2014, the French-based insurer led the industry on a number of corporate social responsibility and … plan to grow the company. The plan called for harvesting slow-growing businesses in mature markets, investing in emerging markets, and reducing the company’s overall cost of operations. Under …
… In 2017, Conservation International (CI) and Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), which had collaborated on … platform named the Wildlife Management Analytics system or WMA, were looking for a way to market the product. The WMA, which made camera trap data on biodiversity easier to analyze, was being incorporated into a free, public, cloud-based website called Wildlife Insights. CI, however, anticipated that scientists, …
… 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 spent $300 … buyers tended to believe that aluminum was not as strong as steel. Especially in the truck market, where Ford promised that its trucks were "Built Ford Tough," beliefs in the … on lighter alloys to compete with aluminum. Meanwhile, manufacturers of carbon-fiber based composites were touting their material as even lighter than aluminum and just as …
… As the Connecticut Green Bank works to design high-impact programs for the solar market, it has supported the design and adoption of legislation that expanded the … Decision makers saw the state’s approach needed to be retooled to incentivize in-state market development. Solar-market demand was accelerating faster than incentives could fulfill it—even as falling …
… their exposure to carbon in their portfolio or had just framed a policy concerning carbon investing. Commonfund had been helping their clients think through these new investment … When it came to public investments, would screening, weighting or forms of impact investing be the best method to construct a portfolio? How should they treat alternative … more individualized responses? Equity and Justice Sustainable Finance and ESG Low-Carbon Investing: Commonfund & GPSU … Low-Carbon Investing: Commonfund & GPSU In August of 2014, …