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On-bill repayment has 'great promise' for US
20 March 2013On-bill repayment (OBR) of renewable energy and energy efficiency retrofits is still a work in progress, but holds great promise for standardising and scaling clean energy projects, a conference heard.
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UK offers tax breaks for shale gas, little for green economy
20 March 2013Green business groups were left unimpressed by the UK's budget today, which offered tax incentives for shale gas extraction but little support for the UK's low-carbon economy.
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Investors urge Bank of America to quit coal funding
20 March 2013Bank of America has been urged to phase out its coal financing in an open letter signed by 50 investors, NGOs and legal experts.
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NYSE Euronext and Vigeo launch ESG indexes
20 March 2013The world's largest exchange group, NYSE Euronext, has launched a range of environmental, social and governance (ESG) indexes using methodology developed by responsible performance expert Vigeo.
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Online 'dating' service to match investors with project developers
19 March 2013A new online exchange aims to become the Match.com of clean energy financing, connecting institutional investors with project developers seeking funding.
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Obama repeats call for $2bn Energy Security Trust
18 March 2013President Barack Obama travelled to Argonne National Laboratory last week to urge Congress to find $2 billion for an Energy Security Trust to fund research into clean transport technologies.
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UK renewables may face funding shortfall
18 March 2013The £7.6 billion ($11.5 billion) a year the UK government has allocated to spur investment in renewables by 2020 may prove insufficient to help meet its decarbonisation targets, a report has warned.
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DJSI aligns climate risk questions with CDP
18 March 2013RobecoSAM is to partially coordinate its sustainability research with CDP, in an effort to reduce the burden faced by listed companies in providing sustainability data to research providers.
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BrightSource, Abengoa to build world's largest solar power towers
18 March 2013BrightSource Energy and Abengoa have joined forces to construct the world's two largest solar power towers in California, expected to come online in 2016.
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A thirst for solar
15 March 2013The growing need for water is set to drive a sharp rise in energy-thirsty desalination plants. Will this open the floodgates for solar power developers? Peter Cripps investigates