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Adriana Trujillo

Investing For a Sustainable Future - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 17 May 16
     
    BCG's seventh sustainability report in collaboration with MIT Sloan Management Review found that 75% of senior executives in investment firms see a company's sustainability performance as materially important to their investment decisions-and nearly half would not invest in a company with a poor sustainability track record. However, only 60% of managers in publicly traded companies believe that good sustainability practices influence investment decisions.
Adriana Trujillo

JPMorgan Chase Announces $900,000 in Sustainable Infrastructure Investments and Branch ... - 1 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 30 Nov 17
     
    JPMorgan Chase & Co. announced plans to invest $900,000 in sustainable infrastructure projects across the City of Detroit. The firm will also retrofit over 70% of its Detroit-based Chase branches with LED lights and new building management systems. https://www.jpmorganchase.com/corporate/news/pr/jpmc-announces-investments-to-support-detroit-economic-recovery.htm
Adriana Trujillo

Investing in Nature Can Be Win-Win-Win for Business, Communities, and the Environment |... - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 17 May 16
     
    A new BSR report makes the triple-bottom-line business case for investing in nature, including numerous examples from leading companies. 
Adriana Trujillo

Disney Invests $6 Million in EdgeCast CDN | Data Center Knowledge - 1 views

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  • alt Disney’s venture arm, Steamboat Ventures, has invested $6 million in content delivery network startup EdgeCast, one of the new entrants in the growing CDN market.
  • In September EdgeCast leased data center space in Atlanta, Dallas and Seattle facilities operated by Switch and Data (SDXC).
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  • Adriana Trujillo on 04 May 16
     
    Article from 2007 on Disney's Steamboat Ventures investing in a startup called EdgeCast which leased a facility in Seattle operated by Switch and Data (SDXC).
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Measuring the impact of conservation investing just got easier | GreenBiz - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 20 May 16
     
    New software breaks down the performance of financial investments in environmental conservation.
Adriana Trujillo

Ikea Group plans €1bn investment in recycling companies and forests | Busines... - 1 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 20 Dec 16
     
    Furniture retailer IKEA sold its development and supply chain division to a group set up by founder Ingvar Kamprad, and it will invest $1.06 billion of the $5.5 billion sale proceeds in forests and recycling ventures, the company said. IKEA owns forests in the Baltic region and Romania, and it uses recyclable packaging.
Adriana Trujillo

» Global Investment in Water Management Solutions Is Expected to Reach $2.8 B... - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 23 Mar 16
     
    Global investment in water management solutions is projected to reach nearly $3 billion in 2025-up from $2 billion in 2016, according to a Navigant Research report.
Adriana Trujillo

How UC Berkeley MBAs beat the market with a socially responsible fund | Guardian Sustai... - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 22 Apr 14
     
    MBA students from the University of California, Berkeley achieved a 50% return on investment from the school's socially responsible investment fund since 2008. The fund performed almost 5% better than the overall market from 2011 to 2014.
Adriana Trujillo

CEO Declaration: Accelerating a low emissions future | OGCI - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 17 Nov 16
     
    BP, Shell, and other global oil and gas companies created OGCI Climate Investments, a 10-year, $1 billion dollar investment fund to "accelerate the development of innovative technologies that, once commercialized, have the potential to reduce GHG emissions on a significant scale." The combined operations of the OGCI member companies account for more than one-fifth of global oil and gas production and more than 10% of the global energy supply.
Del Birmingham

For Every $1 Spent On Reducing Food Waste, Companies Save $14 | Co.Exist | ideas + impact - 1 views

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  • Del Birmingham on 10 Mar 17
     
    A new report by WRI and Waste & Resources Action Programme found that, on average, for every $1 a company invested in food loss and waste reduction-through training programs, providing equipment like scales to quantify food, and improving storage and packaging-they received a $14 return on investment.
Adriana Trujillo

Green financial investments: Banks, companies, funds meet at U.N. on climate solutions. - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 23 Jan 14
     
    Major institutional investors are increasingly mindful of the risk that carbon-intensive assets could lose their value if climate regulations become tougher, Tim McDonnell argues. That could be good news for clean energy investment, even though spending on that sector declined in 2013.
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Ford and Microsoft invest in $1 billion bond for climate projects | GreenBiz.com - 0 views

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  • Ford and Microsoft were among investors in a $1 billion green bond launched last week to support "climate smart" investments in emerging markets.
  • Proceeds of IFC green bonds are used for private sector investments in renewable energy, energy efficiency and other areas that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, such as installing solar and wind power capacity and providing financing for technology that helps produce energy more efficiently.
  • IFC said in a statement that the bond transaction, jointly led by BofA Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, Crédit Agricole CIB and SEB, was heavily oversubscribed and sized to address the demand from "an increasing number of investors interested in climate-related opportunities."
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  • It marks the second $1 billion green bond transaction this year from the International Finance Corporation (IFC), an Aaa/AAA rated global development institution and member of the World Bank Group.
  • Bond issues are seen as an increasingly important way to raise funds for green projects, with the green bond market now estimated at $346 billion after doubling over 2012.
Adriana Trujillo

Siemens to Invest $264 Million in British Wind Turbine Project - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 02 Apr 14
     
    Siemens will invest $264 million to build production facilities for its 6MW offshore wind turbines in the UK. The facilities are expected to create over 1,000 jobs and begin producing rotor blades by 2016.
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The $520 million White House bid to widen access to solar | GreenBiz - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 20 Jul 15
     
    The Obama administration is aiming to start changing that. Last week, the President - fresh off of announcing a $4 billion renewable energy fund with private investment partners - has unveiled a set of initiatives to bring increased access to solar energy and solar jobs.   The "Increase Solar Access for All Americans" plan involves private sector investment of $520 million and partnerships with Citigroup, GRID Alternatives, SunEdison and half a dozen other companies as well as several states and cities.
Del Birmingham

Nespresso Pledges Carbon Neutrality by 2020 · Environmental Management & Sust... - 0 views

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  • Del Birmingham on 02 Sep 14
     
    The commitment is one of several new sustainability initiatives, part of a 500 million Swiss francs ($547 million) program called The Positive Cup. Nespresso says it will invest the money over the next six years to shrink its environmental footprint. Part of this investment will be used to establish a new Sustainable Development Fund.
Del Birmingham

Clean Energy: A Multi-Trillion Dollar Opportunity - Ceres - 0 views

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  • Del Birmingham on 06 Aug 14
     
    To avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the world needs to invest $44 trillion in clean energy by 2050 - an average of $1.2 trillion per year for the next 36 years. Yet global investment in clean energy was just $254 billion in 2013, down from $286 billion in 2012 and down from the record $318 billion in 2011. We have a long way to go to achieve the Clean Trillion goal. There are, however, several signs of progress.
Adriana Trujillo

Why the world's biggest companies are investing in recycling | GreenBiz.com - 0 views

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shared by Adriana Trujillo on 19 Aug 14 - No Cached
  • $5 million and $10 million each into the fund: Colgate Palmolive, Coca-Cola, Goldman Sachs, Johnson & Johnson, Keurig Green Mountain. PepsiCo and the PepsiCo Foundation, Procter & Gamble, Unilever and Walmart and the Walmart Foundation.
  • Adriana Trujillo on 19 Aug 14
     
    the Closed Loop Fund, a budding $100 million effort by a group of large companies to invest in recycling infrastructure and, in the process, put more recycled materials into manufacturing supply chains. Along the way, it aims to give a boost to recycling in the United States at a time when rates are leveling off but the demand for recycled feedstocks is picking up.
Adriana Trujillo

Clean Energy Saving US Companies More Than $1 Billion Annually | Sustainable Brands - 2 views

www.sustainablebrands.com/...panies_more_1_billion_annually

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  • renewable energy
  • clean energy is becoming mainstream for U.S. corporations
  • Walmart, for example, now produces more solar power than 38 U.S. states.
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  • corporate investments in clean energy are not yet at the scale we need,
  • Del Birmingham on 23 Jun 14
     
    The nation's largest companies are rapidly embracing renewable energy sourcing and greenhouse gas emissions reduction efforts, according to a new report from Calvert Investments, Ceres, David Gardiner & Associates, and World Wildlife Fund (WWF).
  • Adriana Trujillo on 24 Jun 14
     
    The nation's largest companies are rapidly embracing renewable energy sourcing and greenhouse gas emissions reduction efforts, according to a new report from Calvert Investments, Ceres, David Gardiner & Associates, and World Wildlife Fund (WWF). 
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GE Invests $200M to Build Ultra-Lightweight Materials · Environmental Leader ... - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 18 Nov 15
     
    General Electric Aviation will invest more than $200 million to construct two factories that will mass-produce silicon carbide (SiC) materials used to manufacture ceramic matrix composite components (CMCs) for jet engines and land-based gas turbines. The factories will be built adjacent to one another on 100 acres in Huntsville, Alabama.
Adriana Trujillo

Special Edition: A Call to Climate Action | Sustainable Brands - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 21 Jan 16
     
    This UN Global Compact-Accenture CEO Study report reveals that the UN climate summit (COP21) is critical to supporting private sector investment and that executives see climate change action as an opportunity for growth and innovation. Among the world's largest companies, those with annual revenues in excess of US$1 billion, 70 percent see opportunities for growth within the next 5 years and 69 percent see investment in climate solutions as essential to competitive advantage.
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