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  • Growing demand, whatever the weather

    11 December 2014

    The weather risk management market continues to grow, and is extending its reach into new regions. Mark Nicholls reports

  • A record-breaking year?

    11 December 2014

    The catastrophe risk management market has been buoyed by an influx of capital in 2014, writes Peter Cripps

  • 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

  • COP Blog: Don't turn the GCF into the Greedy Corporate Fund

    10 December 2014

    Last week, the UN Climate Summit in Lima, Peru, kicked off amid controversy with news that Japan had counted loans for coal projects in Indonesia as international climate finance.

  • The results are in: Annual Market Rankings winners announced

    10 December 2014

    Top brokers, dealers and service providers have been named in Environmental Finance's 15th Annual Market Rankings.

  • Indiana University plans $56.3m green bond

    04 December 2014

    Indiana University plans to become the latest educational body to tap the green bond market, after announcing a $56.3 million issue.

  • Poultry giant wins funding for biomass boilers

    27 November 2014

    An energy efficiency fund managed by Sustainable Development Capital Limited (SDCL) has financed the installation of biomass heaters at a poultry farming giant.

  • Cincinnati to become first public university to issue green bond

    25 November 2014

    The University of Cincinnati (UC) will issue a green bond next week, becoming the first public university in the US to tap the market.

  • Sumitomo buys stakes in North Sea offshore wind

    06 October 2014

    Japanese corporation Sumitomo has made its first investment in European renewable energy, buying shares in two offshore wind projects in the North Sea.

  • World Bank sells options to stimulate methane reductions

    16 September 2014

    The World Bank is launching a novel financing mechanism to attract private sector capital to projects that prevent or reduce emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas.