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CalPERS puts $500m to work in climate strategy
18 November 2010The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) is investing $500 million in an environmental strategy based on HSBC's Global Climate Change Benchmark Index.
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US to raid loan guarantees to save clean energy grants?
11 November 2010The US midterm elections may have dealt a fatal blow to the federal cash grant and loan guarantee programmes for the clean energy sector, and financiers and developers are cool on a plan to sacrifice one programme to save the other.
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'Grim picture' for environmental investing set to brighten?
11 November 2010Institutional investors are risk averse, time-poor and "carbon and climate fatigued", making it difficult to generate interest in environmentally-orientated investing, according to a leading investment consultant.
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SRI investment growth outpaces wider US market
11 November 2010Growth in socially responsible and sustainable investments (SRI) has substantially outpaced the broader US market, despite the economic recession, according to the latest bi-annual study from the Social Investment Forum (SIF).
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Biofuel firm sends pork fat flying
11 November 2010A biofuel plant in Louisiana is turning chicken fat and pork lard into renewable diesel, in what its joint venture partners say is the first commercial-scale advanced biofuels facility in the US.
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Making timberland investment a safe bet
09 November 2010Valuing timberland is a complex business and, with new environmental revenue streams, becoming more so. Steve Palmer explains how sophisticated software is coming to the rescue
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Scarce, and getting scarcer
09 November 2010Could the looming scarcity of so-called rare metals put the brakes on the clean energy revolution – or generate new opportunities for recyclers? Lydia Heida reports
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Van Eck launches rare earths ETF
02 November 2010Money manager Van Eck Global has launched an exchange-traded fund (ETF) offering investors exposure to a possible bull-run in the value of 'rare earth' metals.
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Impax Asian fund doubles war chest
28 October 2010Impax's Asia-focused environmental equity fund has boosted its coffers by £131 million ($208 million) in a secondary fundraising on the London Stock Exchange.
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SAM founder Ringger launches sustainable bank
28 October 2010Sustainable investment veteran Reto Ringger is setting up bank aimed at private investors.