Enhancing Integrity Standards in Carbon Markets: A Conversation with Amy Merrill of ICVCM
- 26 FEB 2025
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- Climate Rising
Amy Merrill, CEO of the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM)
joins host Mike Toffel in this fourth episode of the Climate Rising series on voluntary
carbon markets. Amy has extensive experience in carbon markets, including leading
negotiations on Article 6 of the Paris Agreement and advising on global carbon finance.
Amy explains how ICVCM uses a multi-stakeholder approach to enhance the integrity
of carbon credits, including by developing ten Core Carbon Principles (CCPs) and using
them to evaluate and strengthen carbon credit programs and methodologies. She discusses
the challenges in ensuring credit quality and how the boundary is evolving between
voluntary and compliance markets. Amy also shares her insights into the latest trends
in carbon markets and offers advice for those interested in learning more about these
topics.
Amy Merrill, CEO of the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM)
joins host Mike Toffel in this fourth episode of the Climate Rising series on voluntary
carbon markets. Amy has extensive experience in carbon markets, including leading
negotiations on Article 6 of the Paris Agreement and advising on global carbon finance.
Amy explains how ICVCM uses a multi-stakeholder approach to enhance the integrity
of carbon credits, including by developing ten Core Carbon Principles (CCPs) and using
them to evaluate and strengthen carbon credit programs and methodologies. She discusses
the challenges in ensuring credit quality and how the boundary is evolving between
voluntary and compliance markets. Amy also shares her insights into the latest trends
in carbon markets and offers advice for those interested in learning more about these
topics.
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- 11 Feb 2025
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- Trellis
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Re: Ishita Sen
- 22 Jan 2025
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- CNBC
We Have to Stop Underwriting People Who Move to Climate Danger Zones
By: Ishita Sen
- 16 Jan 2025
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- New York Times
eBee: Affordable Mobility for Africa
- FEBRUARY 2025
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- Teaching Material
The case opens in March 2023, as Sten van der Ham and Jaap Maljers, CEO and co-founder of eBee, an electric bike (e-bike) company in Africa, are contemplating the different avenues for growth and path to profitability for the young and ambitious company. In 2023, the company had been gaining traction in Kenya under three business models and was also getting ready to raise a financing round of 8–10 million round. eBee had the first mover advantage of having introduced e-bikes and van der Ham and Maljers needed to decide which levers to pull for to best grow eBee going forward. The case chronicles the founding of eBee, provides details on its bike designed for the terrain in Africa, and its unit economics. The case then lays the ground transportation Africa complete with challenges, opportunities, and the competitive outlook. The case then goes into detail about the three go-to-market channels that eBee picked to penetrate into the Kenyan market. The case goes into detail about the three different busienss models, business models-- vehicle as a service, fulfillment, and direct sales—that eBee is piloting in 2023 as well as providing an understanding of what each operate, their financial prospects, and growth outlooks, as eBee tries to grow its sales. While each business model presented its challenges and were yet to prove profitable at scale, van der Ham and Maljers firmly believed the in the immense opportunity to grow e-bikes in Africa and in eBee’s first mover advantage. The duo was excited about geographical expansion. Others on the team and advisory board held that, obtaining proof of concept in Kenya first would be more helpful, while some suggested to eliminate some of the business models and focus more on others. What was the best way to grow eBee in Africa? Was the product–market fit good enough to build on? What was the best path to profitability for eBee? As eBee was still testing multiple business models, was it the right time for the company to embark on geographical expansion?
Transitioning from Responsible and Reactive to Deeply Responsible and Proactive International Business
- JANUARY–MARCH 2025
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- Critical Perspectives on International Business
This article aims to explore the role of multinational enterprises in addressing grand societal challenges, emphasizing the need for integrating environmental and social aspects into business models. It offers an analysis of how principles and values can guide engaged international business scholarship and responsible International Business scholarship.
Sustainability and Green Business in Latin America
- 2025
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- Book Chapter
This chapter argues that since the nineteenth century capitalism has created much wealth, but at the cost of massive ecological destruction, which has been particularly severe in Latin America. During the first global economy before 1929, considerable wealth was created from the exploitation of natural resources for primarily the land-owning elite in Latin America, at the cost of large-scale destruction of the natural environment. During the so-called Great Reversal between 1929 and 1979, strategies to catch up resulted in the proliferation of hydro-electric schemes which caused further environmental damage co-created by business and governments. As globalization resumed from the 1980s, renewed economic growth and consumerism resulted in mountains of waste in increasingly polluted cities. However ecological horror stories also created opportunities for a cohort of green businesses across sectors ranging from beauty and health to eco-tourism.
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