… This project explores the mechanisms that allow actors in different settings to coordinate and create the institutions required … environmentalists, developers, utilities, turbine manufacturers, local and federal policy makers, and academia. Interviews lasted, on average, 1.5 hours and yielded more than 500 … von der Haar/flickr Equity and Justice Clean Energy Environmental Innovation Institutional Entrepreneurship and Renewable Energy in the U.S. … Institutional Entrepreneurship and …
… activities. This will have catastrophic effects on human health, infrastructure, energy, agriculture, fisheries, sea levels, natural ecosystems, and more. For many, the consequences … on climate change. While many corporations, investors, regulators, and consumers agree that corporate sustainability is imperative, identifying best practices and which companies are ‘walking the walk’ can be challenging. Corporate metrics, certifications, and …
… The objective of this project is to investigate ways that consumers make inferences about green product quality. The investigators found that consumers tend to … to result from consumers’ reliance upon a “zero-sum” heuristic, whereby they assume thatcompanies have a fixed amount of manufacturing resources. Thus, resources devoted to “making …
… Finance and ESG Equity and Justice Bridging the Gap: How Philanthropy Can Unlock Impact Investing … Bridging the Gap: How Philanthropy Can Unlock Impact Investing -by Abhishri … (GIIN) total global impact investing assets in 2018 grew more than 50% from 2017. Yet, that growth is tiny relative to the overall investing marketplace—comprising only 4% of … a side benefit to this report may be facilitating stronger communication between grantmakers and impact investors. It may also be of immediate relevance for conferences and …
… There may be no hotter topic in agriculture today than ‘regenerative’ agriculture. Food companies, investors, multinational institutions and governments are making pledges to … a foundation for financing regenerative farms. It then details the three types of factors thatmake financing regenerative agriculture difficult: outdated financial models; difficult …
… Do sustainable farmland investments deliver financial, environmental and social returns? With the rise of impact investing, there has been a jump in investment strategies promoting sustainableagriculture. This research attempts to understand the strategies and performance of a subset …
… Agrivoltaics is a solar market subsegment that co-locates solar energy production and agricultural operations. Combining these … a broad audience, also examines how communities, solar developers, local leaders, and policymakers can effectively promote, support, and regulate agrivoltaic systems. Clean Energy … Energy on Public Lands Mobilizing Finance for Land Conservation at the Energy-Land-Agriculture Nexus … Agrivoltaics is a solar market subsegment that co-locates solar energy …
… of unsustainability and a possibility of vision-oriented sustainability, it can be more clearly articulated how expressions of autonomous, intrinsic or self-determined … vision (or envisioning) from projections, scenarios, or forecasts in a way that provides access to crafting autonomous motivation for sustainability and … expanded into an online article series in collaboration with the MIT Sloan Initiative for Sustainable Business & Society. Use and Applicatons The article, “Transforming …
… Corporations’ internal carbon pricing attempts to correct the incentive structure that underpins consumption choices related to greenhouse gas emissions. Internal carbon pricing allows companies to assess the financial implications of their carbon emissions and encourage … support the use of this policy framework for companies, organizations, and policymakers. We also provide a supplementary theoretical framework and model for evaluating a …
… Low productivity in agriculture is a significant development challenge, yet many processes used to increase land productivity have deleterious effects that actually reduce the long-run usability of the land. Moresustainable agricultural technologies exist, designed to minimize the adverse effects …