Archive

  • AB InBev environmental efforts yield $500m

    07 March 2013

    Anheuser-Busch InBev generated additional revenues of $420 million from recycling waste streams and saved $92 million from more efficient energy and water use since 2009, the brewing giant has claimed.

  • Clean-tech is dead, long live clean-tech

    05 March 2013

    Many clean-tech venture investors might have struck out – but market veterans are reinventing themselves, shifting up the finance spectrum and refocusing on proven technologies. Mark Nicholls reports

  • GCCSI opens Beijing office

    04 March 2013

    The Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute (GCCSI) has opened an office in China and signed a memorandum of understanding with one of the country's biggest oil and gas companies.

  • Continental bows to investor pressure on gas flaring

    01 March 2013

    Continental Resources, one of the largest oil producers in North Dakota's Bakken region, has committed to reduce natural gas flaring from its well sites to "as close to zero percent flaring as possible".

  • 'Alarm bells need to ring' on Europe's slow CCS progress – EC energy head

    28 February 2013

    The slow development of carbon capture and storage (CCS) plants in Europe should cause "alarm bells to ring", as the region's dependence on fossil fuels is growing, the European Commission's head of energy has said.

  • Creating a competitive advantage

    26 February 2013

    When it comes to managing environmental, social and governance issues, the private equity industry is moving from 'why?' to 'how?', say Tom Murray and Lee Coker

  • Biofuels fraudster sentenced to 12 years

    26 February 2013

    The man at the centre of a $9 million fraud involving US biofuel credits has been sentenced to 12 years in prison.

  • The resource efficiency opportunity

    26 February 2013

    Markets linked to resource efficiency are set to deliver strong growth and, if approached correctly, investment outperformance, says Ian Simm

  • Emerging markets sustainability index launched

    22 February 2013

    A sustainability index tracking the performance of companies in emerging markets has been added to the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) family.

  • IBM, Public Storage, bow to environmental pressure from investors

    21 February 2013

    IT giant IBM and real estate firm Public Storage have agreed to increase reporting on their energy performance, reaching agreement with investors who had filed shareholder resolutions against their boards.