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Insurance fix seen for residential PACE bond deadlock
07 August 2012Insurance may be the answer to overcoming the objections of government regulators to bond programmes that pay for residential renewable energy and efficiency projects, according to legal experts and observers.
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Second French region issues green bond
07 August 2012Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur has followed Île de France in issuing a sustainable bond, raising €119.5 million ($148.2 million) for renewable energy and social housing.
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Catching a break on the tax code
07 August 2012Could changes to US tax law open up a whole new investor base to the renewable energy sector – and add MLPs and REITs to the renewables lexicon? Gloria Gonzalez reports
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UK allocates £100m to energy efficiency funds
06 August 2012The UK government has selected two fund managers that will invest £100 million ($156 million) of government funds into non-domestic energy efficiency projects, ahead of the UK Green Investment Bank launch.
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TIAA-CREF adds to timberland portfolio
06 August 2012US pensions giant TIAA-CREF has acquired a majority stake in GreenWood Resources, a leading timberland investment management organisation (TIMO), for an undisclosed sum.
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Green groups to sue Ex-Im Bank over Aussie LNG projects
03 August 2012Three conservation groups have started a legal challenge to the US Export-Import Bank's nearly $3 billion in financing for two liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities in Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
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RenRe's weather business returns to profit
03 August 2012RenaissanceRe's weather and energy risk management business has made a quarterly profit for the first time in a year, thanks to the unusually hot weather in North America and a cool spring in the UK.
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Bill to end loan guarantees passes House committee
02 August 2012A key US House of Representatives committee adopted a bill to ban future loan guarantees after a string of bankruptcies among government-supported renewable energy projects.
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Investors in the dark on oil drilling risks
02 August 2012Oil and gas companies are doing a terrible job of disclosing climate and deepwater drilling risks, even in light of the tragic Gulf of Mexico oil spill, according to a new report.
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Capital costs: the next solar breakthrough
02 August 2012Smarter financing, rather than better technology, is most likely to propel the US solar industry towards grid parity over the next few years, say Tom Leyden and John Hopkins