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Steady as she goes
17 December 2010Weather risk dealers report a steady, if unspectacular, year in the market, while the catastrophe risk market has been buoyed by growing bond issuance. Charlotte Dudley reports
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The finance starts to flow
17 December 2010Policy uncertainty has sent a chill through renewable energy markets in 2010, but financing, at least, is starting to thaw. Jess McCabe reports
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Europe gets smart about metering
17 December 2010The roll-out of smart meters across Europe will become one of the largest and most complex investment programmes ever undertaken in the energy sector. Ronald Hendrikx considers what is at stake
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Canada on the cusp
17 December 2010Canada has been overlooked by environmental investors but, say Martin Grosskopf and Rachel Davies, its improving policy environment and healthy, resource-based economic fundamentals are positioning it to deliver the next spurt of clean-tech growth
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Making the case for clean energy
17 December 2010The renewable energy sector has been under particular attack of late, with sceptics taking potshots at its viability and environmental effectiveness. But many of these attacks are flawed or unfounded, say Gabriel Miller, Camilla Sharples and Paul Ho
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Stuck on REDD
17 December 2010Investment is urgently needed to save the world's tropical forests, but efforts of investors such as Hylton Murray-Philipson have been hobbled by slow progress towards an international 'REDD' framework. He talks to Mark Nicholls
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Temperatures rising
17 December 2010The US administration is considering whether to drag China to the WTO over alleged clean-tech protectionism. But ensuring that China plays by the rules is only one part of the story, says Jake Colvin
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Not punishment, but cure
17 December 2010James Cameron from Climate Change Capital says pricing carbon is a vital part of the world's growth strategy – which makes regulatory attacks on the market so baffling
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Trading truncated
17 December 2010The regulatory omens don't look good for the major US emissions markets, and the economic downturn has dried up liquidity in the regional ones. Gloria Gonzalez reports on a gloomy year in SO2 and NOx
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California dreaming
17 December 2010Trading is under way in California's nascent carbon market – which could form a basis for EPA carbon regulation across the US, say Stephen MacKenzie and Thomas Cape