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Unlocking the energy efficiency opportunity
04 April 2013Making buildings, transport and industrial operations more energy efficient will play a key role in limiting climate change – yet progress has proved slow. Elza Holmstedt Pell reports
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Anglo: engaging with climate policy
04 April 2013Climate change is already a reality for miner Anglo American – which makes its engagement with the climate policy process all the more important, says Sam Hoe-Richardson
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Attracting low-cost capital to clean energy
03 April 2013Michael Eckhart introduces a proposal for a new public-private partnership – the Sustainable Development Bond Assurance Corporation – that could provide risk insurance to support the issuance of bonds to finance clean energy projects around the world
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Romania's plans to overhaul green certificate scheme could 'deter investors'
03 April 2013Romania is planning to slash subsidies for new renewable power plants and hold back some of the green certificates that existing installations are set to receive up to 2017 – a move observers say could deter investors from the country's booming renewables sector.
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Ecosystem services rising up agenda for bank economists
03 April 2013There is greater willingness among investment bank economists to discuss incorporating ecosystem services into their economic modelling and "a much greater level of informed discussion" on the topic, according to three fund managers.
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EPA sets higher mercury pollution limit for new power plants
03 April 2013The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has raised the proposed mercury emissions limits for new power plants, after complaints that the initial targets were not achievable.
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Animal welfare raises ESG issues
02 April 2013Rory Sullivan and Nicky Amos consider the lessons that a recent benchmarking of farm animal welfare standards can teach responsible investors
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New York's green banker
02 April 2013Richard Kauffman has come to New York State to build a $1 billion green bank, transform its energy system, and create a bunch of green jobs. In his first interview as New York's energy tsar, he talks to Mark Nicholls
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China's ICBC commits $2bn to South African renewables projects
02 April 2013Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) has agreed to provide ZAR20 billion ($2.17 billion) of debt for South African renewable energy projects, helping to address a looming liquidity squeeze.
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The green bond market comes of age
02 April 2013The first $1 billion environmental bond has opened the market up to a new class of investor – but the search for yield goes on. Mark Nicholls reports