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  • Structural work underpins carbon market optimism

    03 January 2018

    If 2017 was the year of carbon market maintenance, with legislation extending the life of schemes in the US and Europe, 2018 could be defined by greater linking between initiatives, says Michael Hurley

  • Feedback required for geothermal standards in the green bond market

    16 September 2015

    The Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) is calling for feedback on planned criteria for geothermal-based green bonds.

  • Voting opens for the Annual Voluntary Carbon Market Rankings

    01 April 2015

    For the sixth year, Environmental Finance is conducting its annual rankings of the voluntary carbon markets. The survey, which opens today, is asking for views on the leading project developers, traders, wholesalers, advisors, verifiers and other service providers in the space.

  • The only way is up

    11 December 2014

    This year's winners in the carbon markets section of our annual rankings believe the tide has finally turned after the economic downturn in 2008 sent prices and volumes tumbling. Graham Cooper and Sophie Robinson-Tillett report

  • Voluntary carbon leaders look on the bright side

    30 June 2014

    The dominant players in the voluntary carbon market are optimistic about the future, despite a decline in volumes and prices between 2012 and 2013, according to the latest survey of the market by Environmental Finance.

  • Voting opens for the Annual Voluntary Carbon Market Rankings

    17 April 2014

    Environmental Finance is conducting its annual rankings of the voluntary carbon markets, polling our readers on the leading project developers, traders, wholesalers, advisors, verifiers and other service providers active in these markets.

  • Succeeding in uncertain times

    09 December 2013

    Having survived another tough year, the winners in Environmental Finance's 14th Annual Market Rankings have proved they can cope with the pain and are poised to prosper when the tide turns.

  • GHGs: Back to the future

    09 December 2013

    The winners in this year's rankings have triumphed in the face of adversity. They are now anxiously waiting for policymakers to make structural reforms to core markets, just as they were at the turn of the century. Graham Cooper reports

  • Renewable Identification Numbers: A year of RINsanity

    09 December 2013

    The market for US biofuel credits has seen an unprecedented level of activity this year, but regulatory uncertainty makes the future of the market difficult to predict. Elza Holmstedt Pell reports

  • Taking the pulse of the voluntary market

    09 May 2013

    Mark Nicholls reports on the results of Carbon Finance's latest Voluntary Carbon Market Rankings – and finds growth and innovation, but some anxiety about oversupply