Increasingly, insurers are stepping in to bridge the gap between green intentions and actual capital outlays on green technology.
Adding the gardens requires a $200 permit, which had led some to accuse the city of exploiting green intentions for revenue.
This excites green-minded economists but leaves the government cold.Sour green grapesThe main reason for the failure of the government's green intentions, however, seems to be bad organisation.
"It's a very meager effort to try to capitalize on green intentions, and I kind of consider that greenwashing," Mr. Ning said, using the term for representing companies or products as more environmentally friendly than they are.
But airline executives expressed deep skepticism about the initiative's green intentions, pointing to similar taxes adopted in Britain and Ireland, which, the executives said, had yielded little in terms of concrete steps to reduce carbon emissions.
One thing is for sure: there is a world of difference between possessing good green intentions and having the resources and organisation to put them into practice – especially for the larger gatherings.
Using quite loose parameters of what is ethical and what is not, excluding all the usual suspects but including oil companies and pharmaceuticals, it is now possible at a glance to see how the leading 50 companies with green intentions are performing.
Verrier et al. (2014) proposed a framework for the lean and green management, which includes lean indicators, green performance indicators, and green intentions indicators.
My question to you is what green intentions will you set in 2017?
