At first glance, the lineup of products and services on display at this year’s New Ventures India Investor Forum seemed to reflect traditional Indian knowledges and practices. Banana-leaf materials, light posts, and packaged Indian foods were some of the offerings on display by entrepreneur finalists.
The World Resources Institute (WRI) and the Greenhouse Gas Management Institute are joining forces to train professionals on the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, the most widely used international accounting tool for government and business leaders to understand, quantify, and manage greenhouse gas emissions.
Accelerating Clean Energy Markets in India helps increase the capacity of investors to fund clean energy enterprises.
Addressing climate change means meeting rising energy demand while reducing emissions at an unprecedented scale. Based on the Socolow “wedge” model, this project looks at how policies, investments, international markets, and financial flows can accelerate clean technology deployment.
The International Financial Flows and Environment Project (IFFE) works to improve the environmental and social decision making and performance of public and private International Financial Institutions (IFIs) by holding them accountable to their investors, to donor countries and to the communities that are impacted by their investments.
Supports sustainable enterprises by accelerating the transfer of capital to outstanding companies that incorporate social and environmental benefits.
Ensures that the financial implications of environmental opportunities and risk are properly understood by financial institutions, investors and issuers and are appropriately reflected in the world’s capital markets.
Recent news highlights increased business interest in opportunities and liabilities resulting from climate change.
Policies to regulate greenhouse gases are being developed and implemented in major markets around the world. Because these new policies bring costs as well as opportunities, prudent investors will factor climate change risk into investment decisions.
Provides investors worldwide with information to assist them in responding to the financial risks and investment opportunities posed by climate change.
Evaluates how environmental issues might impact the future financial performance of leading companies in the oil and gas sector.
