… and even in biofuel. This wide range of uses has stimulated cultivation and oil extraction; annual global production has increased more than nine-fold since 1980. By the … Founded in 1996 by the influential Widjaja family (operators of the Sinar Mas business group), GAR became the holding company for the family’s agribusinesses, including its … growing seedlings and managing over 450,000 hectares of plantation lands to running extraction and refining mills and marketing its own brand of cooking oil. While GAR is …
… renaming and restructuring the preexisting Clean Water Finance Agency (CWFA). Three other programs—Commercial Property-Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE), Residential Property-Assessed … It accomplished this by publicizing a widely-distributed RFP. All of these projects are net cash flow-positive, meaning they generate more savings than the total cost of the … $20 million in net-cash-flow savings. After over a year of operation, the EBF has yielded action recommendations that decision makers can use to refine and iterate the program. The …
… The Yale Farm was founded in 2003 by a group of students who wished to see the dining halls serve more organic food. With support … on the north side of the campus into a large garden, and started a series of educational programs related to food. Today the Yale Farm is a large educational initiative within the … food banks. The farm's staff of four manages community work days and organizes educational programs, including lectures by well-known chefs, cooking demonstrations, and classes on …
… engage in philanthropy. Inside AXA in 1990, the company created AXA Atout Coeur ("Hearts in Action") to encourage and support community engagement by employees, and in 2001 it established the Group’s first "sustainable development" function. But it wasn’t until 2008 that the company … responsibility was a key strategic area for the company to pursue, AXA’s first global CR action plan was launched. Under the direction of Alice Steenland, AXA’s CR team created a …
… refusal to give Sun the information and technology necessary to allow its work group server operating systems to interoperate effectively with the Windows client PC … an investigation relating to (1) Microsoft’s Windows 2000 generation of client PC and work group server operating systems and (2) the integration by Microsoft of its Windows Media … (1) had dominant positions in the markets for client PC operating systems and work group server operating systems and (2) had abused its dominant positions in violation of …
… from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Project Sammaan brought together a stellar group of designers, architects, and social science researchers to tackle one of the … had gone wrong? Project Sammaan had started promisingly enough. In 2011 and early 2012, the group had come together, to combine their disparate skills to create innovative approaches … faced setback after setback. There were unexpected delays and misunderstandings within the group. In late 2013, the project faced major concerns about how to move forward and whether …
… gasses in the environment. Unfortunately, the conference produced little concrete action and most agreed that the final three page statement did little to create mechanisms … - which had their fair share of critics and skeptics - spurred world leaders into action. In 1992, representatives from 178 countries met in Rio de Janierio, Brazil for a … of London taking the lead in shaping the nascent market. Even though the EU was the only group of nations to create a formal mechanism for distributing and requiring carbon …
… was underway and could have potentially devastating consequences for the ecology of the planet. Since automobiles were a substantial contributor of CO2 to the atmosphere, scientists … mindset, since the ICE had been a mainstay of the automotive industry for over 80 years. Nonetheless over the next decade, GM spent billions of dollars experimenting and building … polarized with the GCC denying the existence of global warming while environmental groups were calling for drastic cuts in the consumption of fossil fuel. With its significant …
… decision to make. Garcia is a member of the Governor’s Council on Climate Change (GC3), a group charged with creating a comprehensive climate strategy for the State of Connecticut. … be around for a long time.” To provide insight into the long term consequences of their actions, the GC3’s data and metrics working group was building models that would both … be around for a long time.” To provide insight into the long term consequences of their actions, the GC3’s data and metrics working group was building models that would both …
… side, hundreds of thousands of companies across the globe bought palm oil or palm oil fractions to include in a wide variety of products. Between supply and demand, however, six … trader to adopt a NDPE standard for all of its suppliers. The pledge and the government’s reaction to it had created three sets of challenges for the company. First Wilmar had to find … ways of dealing with them, especially in the face of continued NGO pressure. Secondly, some groups had indicated that they might try to bypass Wilmar and sell their CPO directly to …