… The Renewable Thermal Alliance’s challenge isstraightforward: to develop the infrastructure for large-scale deployment of renewable … based on fossil fuels and is hence a high-impact area. Based on the notion that the thermal market is regional rather than state bound, that viable business models can add value, that …
… 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 …
… 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 …
… Started in 2012, Nature’s Returns: Investing in Ecosystem Services is a webinar series that … from healthy and functioning ecosystems are vast. Clean drinking water filtered by forests, carbonstored in plants or soil, crop pollination by wild insects, and pharmaceutical uses … presents an opportunity to both protect these assets and bring their worth into the market. Currently, conservationists and investors alike are moving into thisspace in hopes …
… Building from recent research testing strategies and messages that are most conducive to solar adoption, this new project … with partner organizations to explore ways to broaden the appeal of solar power to a massmarket, including low- and moderate-income households. Building from recent research testing …
… 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 …
… Clean Energy Equity and Justice Sustainable Finance and ESG The Decarbonization Accelerator … Program The Decarbonization Accelerator Looking for Real U.S. … Clean Energy Coursera course on Subnational Action on Climate Change – in development! Events From policymakers and public utilities to NGO leaders and private sector executives, …
… The Yale Initiative on Sustainable Finance (YISF) aims to produce fresh thinking and cutting-edge research on the challenges to integrating sustainability concerns into financial markets and investment decisions. YISF functions as a knowledge hub and providesspace for …