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  • Beijing and Shanghai launch pilot carbon markets

    29 November 2013

    Beijing and Shanghai have launched pilot emissions trading systems (ETSs) this week, marking the latest effort by China to develop the world's largest carbon market.

  • Offshore wind grid group issues £305m bond with EIB credit enhancement

    28 November 2013

    A company that operates a power connection between an offshore wind farm and the grid has become the first renewables-related bond to receive credit enhancement through a European Investment Bank (EIB) programme.

  • Impax hikes divi 20% as funds outperform

    28 November 2013

    Impax Asset Management is to hike its dividend payments by 20% after its resource efficiency-themed investments outperformed the wider markets.

  • Financial close reached for £760m UK waste-to-energy plant

    28 November 2013

    A UK resource management company and its investment partners have signed a £760 million ($1.2 billion) contract with a waste authority for a waste-to-energy project.

  • CDM rescue fund seeks proposals

    27 November 2013

    Developers of projects that qualify for carbon credits under the Clean Development Mechanism, but are not economically viable at present, are being invited to sell credits to a newly formed fund until 8 January.

  • COP19: boon or bust?

    27 November 2013

    The UN climate talks in Warsaw kept a 2015 agreement within grasp – but offers little for investors, at least in the near-term, finds Katie Kouchakji

  • CF Partners hires COO

    26 November 2013

    CF Partners, an advisory, investment and trading firm active in carbon and energy, has appointed a chief operating officer (COO).

  • Analysts warn of Keystone risk to investors

    26 November 2013

    TransCanada's $5.3 billion Keystone XL pipeline, which has been proposed to carry oil from Canada's oil sands to the US Gulf Coast, is a risky proposition for investors, new research suggests.

  • Environmental investment opportunities in emerging markets

    26 November 2013

    There are compelling opportunities for the private sector to make profitable investments in the most energy inefficient area of the world, argues Dimitris Tsitsiragos

  • RWE drops plans for '£4bn' UK offshore wind farm

    26 November 2013

    RWE has cancelled plans for of an offshore wind farm in the UK, blaming technical challenges and market conditions for making it uneconomic to go ahead.