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All eyes on Africa
11 April 2012Interest and activity are building in Africa's carbon markets, but developers and buyers face frustrations in getting projects built and credited. Elza Holmstedt Pell reports
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Trading places
11 April 2012It's been quite a road for Dirk Forrister, the new president of the International Emissions Trading Association – from the White House to Geneva, via London and Colorado. He talks to Katie Kouchakji about how the carbon market has changed and where he sees it heading
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A blended approach to financing forests
11 April 2012It is unlikely that the carbon markets, via a REDD mechanism, can deliver enough finance quickly enough to rapidly slow deforestation. Nick Oakes explains how blending additional revenue streams with carbon finance could be the answer
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EDITORIAL: A(nother) call to action
11 April 2012At Environmental Finance, we know only too well how much information our readers are bombarded with – whether about the latest environmental technologies or policy developments, the ups and downs of environmental commodity markets, or the increasingly frequent financing deals that are laying the foundations of a low-carbon economy.
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UK seeds impact investment bank with £600m
05 April 2012The UK government has launched a £600 million ($949 million) finance institution to lend money to charities and community groups, of which an undisclosed amount will go to environmental organisations.
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The next steps
05 April 2012After 11 years at the helm of the UNEP Finance Initiative, Paul Clements-Hunt takes a look at the past – and future – of sustainable finance
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China after the CDM
05 April 2012In recent years, western investment in China's renewable energy infrastructure has been all about the Clean Development Mechanism. But, as Europe shuts the door on Chinese carbon credits, developers and investors are looking at new Chinese renewables plays. Joshua Speckman reports
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Sustainable palm oil 'a serious business opportunity' – WWF
05 April 2012Financial gains and other business benefits for palm oil producers outweigh the costs of meeting sustainable palm oil criteria, according to the WWF.
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NYSE and BNEF launch sectoral clean energy indexes
05 April 2012NYSE Euronext and Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) have introduced three sector-focused global clean energy indexes.
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UK brokerage to aid access to green finance
03 April 2012A specialist brokerage firm has been launched to help UK companies access finance for renewable energy and energy efficiency projects.