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Rising tide for Impax water strategy
26 January 2012Environmentally themed investment funds have had a difficult time of late, but Impax Asset Management claims its water strategy has performed better than most.
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Recycling fund delivers 50% return since 2008
26 January 2012A UK recycling fund has reached £100 million ($157 million) in assets and delivered an almost 50% return since its launch in 2008.
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Drill, baby, drill
26 January 2012The oil majors are betting big on gas, while throwing some loose change at alternative energy technologies. But they are also banking on energy efficiency extending the life of the internal combustion engine. Jeremy Lovell reports
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Carbon trading goes west
26 January 2012The Western Climate Initiative is finally operational, but with only two of its planned 11 members. Gloria Gonzalez reports on what this means for its carbon market – and on the potential for it to gather both momentum and members once more
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S&P sets out solar securitisation challenges
26 January 2012Securitisation may be a "viable option" for solar photovoltaic (PV) developers, says rating agency Standard & Poor's (S&P), but it has set out a list of concerns that are likely to prove daunting to structurers and credit ratings firms.
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Obama restates clean energy commitment, omits targets
26 January 2012Despite failing to enact comprehensive climate legislation, there is no reason the US Congress should not pass a clean energy standard (CES) and grant related tax credits, President Barack Obama said during his State of the Union address on Tuesday.
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Congress, not EPA, needs to act on emissions – Alexander
26 January 2012Congress should move on legislation to deal with nitrogen oxides (NOx), sulphur dioxide (SO2) and mercury emissions so the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) does not have to devise regulations for these pollutants, a Republican senator said Monday.
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Cellulosic ethanol plant to ditch DOE loan guarantee
25 January 2012A joint venture with Dutch life sciences firm DSM has allowed biofuels producer Poet to eschew a loan guarantee from the US government.
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SEB, Daiwa top environmental bond underwriting league table
25 January 2012Sweden's SEB and Japan's Daiwa have been the two most active underwriters of environmental bonds issued by multilateral finance institutions, according to a new league table.
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Low-carbon workplace fund gets first institutional investment
24 January 2012A fund that invests in low-carbon office refurbishments around the UK has received its first institutional investment, of around £35 million ($55 million).