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Splitting from the atom?
07 April 2011Solar and wind stocks surged as the nuclear crisis in Japan began to unfold, reports Jess McCabe. Is it a temporary blip – or the recovery that investors have been waiting for?
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Pension funds increase investments in wind farms
07 April 2011PensionDanmark, a pension fund with around €14 billion ($20 billion) under management, has made its second investment in offshore wind farms and is planning more.
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Corporates say clean-tech investment is good for revenue
07 April 2011Almost three-quarters of corporations surveyed by consultancy Ernst & Young plan to increase or significantly increase clean-tech budgets between 2012 and 2014, reflecting a growing view that such spending can improve corporate revenues.
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Putting private equity to work
06 April 2011Despite her US base, the first bets the head of private equity investments at Deutsche Bank Climate Change Advisers is making are in China. Gisele Everett talks clean technology and policy with Gloria Gonzalez
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The role of the reinsurers
06 April 2011Climate change is already changing the patterns of extreme weather around the world – posing challenges for the insurance sector, but also opening up market opportunities, says Peter Höppe
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California's renewables target to be undermined by weaker Senate bill?
06 April 2011California's aggressive targets on renewable energy could be weakened by too much flexibility and a lack of sanctions for failing utilities, a leading analyst has warned.
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Norway makes first payment to Guyana under pioneering forest carbon deal
06 April 2011Norway is to immediately transfer $40 million to Guyana in the first payment under a novel deal to protect the South American country's forests.
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CDP investors' demands shift from disclosure to mitigation
06 April 2011A 'vanguard' group of Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) signatories managing $7.6 trillion of assets have called on the world's largest companies to implement "cost-effective" greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions.
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US officials vent over lack of clean-tech policy certainty
05 April 2011US government officials working to facilitate investment in the clean-tech sector say they are just as frustrated with the lack of federal policy certainty as private investors.
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Materiality: a dialogue of the deaf?
05 April 2011Why do investors care so little about most metrics of corporate sustainability? It all comes down to financial materiality, explains Rory Sullivan