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Germany lights the path on efficiency
14 February 2013Germany's domestic energy efficiency programme has been praised as a blueprint for other countries to follow. Elza Holmstedt Pell investigates how its development bank is helping to keep the country's energy costs down
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ESG becoming more important to investors
14 February 2013Investors are expected to pay more attention to companies' environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance as extreme weather and social unrest become more persistent, according to a new report.
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Revenues from 'shale oil boom' should fund low-carbon technologies – PwC
14 February 2013Governments need to invest some of the revenues from a predicted shale oil boom in low-carbon technologies to balance its environmental impacts, PwC has said, as it predicts the technology will significantly reduce oil prices by 2035.
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Obama urges increased commitment to renewables
13 February 2013The US must strengthen its commitment to the clean energy sector to keep pace with China and other countries, said Barack Obama in his State of the Union address, as he unveiled a plan to double US renewable energy generation by 2020.
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Fund set for UK solar buying spree
13 February 2013A private equity fund backed by leading UK investor Jon Moulton is planning to ramp up its investments in industrial solar power installations, having deployed almost £40 million ($62.6 million) since December 2011.
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China launches energy efficiency marketplace
12 February 2013China has added an energy-savings trading platform in Beijing to the basket of market-based measures it hopes will slow growth of the country's energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.
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Giving credit to water benefits
12 February 2013A novel partnership is bringing lessons from the carbon markets to the challenge of financing water projects in developing countries. Sascha Lafeld and Jacob Bourgeois explain the Water Benefit Certificate initiative
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Axa draws up ESG framework for sovereign debt
11 February 2013Axa Investment Managers (Axa IM) has unveiled a new framework for analysing countries' environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance and has suggested ways in which it can be applied to sovereign debt portfolios.
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New study to help guard against 'stranded assets'
11 February 2013A research programme has been launched to identify high-carbon sectors and assets in danger of becoming devalued or written off amid the shift towards a greener economy.
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Key US tax incentive is revived
08 February 2013US officials have found $150 million to resurrect a key tax incentive programme for clean energy projects.