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Forest risk rises
11 March 2013The number of companies reporting to the Forest Footprint Disclosure project has broken through the 100 barrier. But with sectors such as oil and gas largely shunning the initiative, what can be done to raise awareness around forest-risk commodities? Peter Cripps reports
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Hobley named as CMIA president
08 March 2013Anthony Hobley of law firm Norton Rose has been elected as president of the Climate Markets and Investment Association (CMIA).
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Most US insurers lack climate change strategy - Ceres
08 March 2013The vast majority of US insurers have failed to demonstrate that they have devised climate change strategies, a survey has revealed.
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Bigger-than-expected SolarCity loss fails to worry analyst
08 March 2013Investors should not be deterred by SolarCity's unexpectedly big quarterly loss, because the company is in a strong position compared with its competitors and is reducing its cost of capital, an analyst has said.
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Pooled investment vehicles could boost renewables - CPI
08 March 2013The creation of large, publicly traded, pooled investment vehicles is among the measures that could encourage pension funds and insurers to ramp up allocations to renewables, a new report claims.
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Mind the risk gap
07 March 2013Renewables projects are struggling to get off the ground because investors fear they are too risky. What can be done to make them a safer bet, and what role should the public sector play, asks Gianleo Frisari
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Investors should look to low-carbon projects, says IFC Treasurer
07 March 2013Investors in green bonds could get better risk-adjusted returns by investing directly in underlying low-carbon projects, according to the treasurer of the International Finance Corporation (IFC).
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EFET launches standard contract for wood pellet trade
07 March 2013A standard contract for wood pellets has been launched in Europe in a move to establish a traded market, but traders say demand is currently too low for activity to rise substantially.
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AB InBev environmental efforts yield $500m
07 March 2013Anheuser-Busch InBev generated additional revenues of $420 million from recycling waste streams and saved $92 million from more efficient energy and water use since 2009, the brewing giant has claimed.
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After 25 years, where to now?
07 March 2013Despite a quarter of a century of growing concern about global warming, optimism among climate change professionals in finance, business and policy has perhaps never been lower. At a junction in his career, veteran Mark Trexler takes the pulse of his network, and asks, where do we go from here?