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Impressive new results of KKR's Green Portfolio Program provide important insights for the private equity sector

By | Published: December 17, 2012

Today KKR announced the fourth year of results from its Green Portfolio Program (GPP), with portfolio companies saving a whopping $644 million and avoiding more than 1.2 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions, 3.4 million tons of waste, and 13.2 million cubic meters of water. We know it has taken a significant amount of [...]

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Environmental management can help the PE sector create “green returns”

By | Bio | Published: February 8, 2010

Environmental Defense Fund’s Green Returns team is just back from the Dow Jones Private Equity Analyst Outlook 2010 conference in New York, where we sponsored, exhibited and presented.  There is no doubt that EDF is the first environment group to do all three at a Dow Jones conference.  It was a great chance for us [...]

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EDF and KKR: The not so odd couple

By | Bio | Published: July 8, 2009

Partnering with leading corporations to demonstrate that good environmental strategy is good business strategy is not a new concept at EDF. In fact, we’ve been doing it for 20 years. What has evolved are the partners we select, the goals we set and the scale of the impacts that we try to achieve. We’re still [...]

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