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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
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Breaking down barriers
04 April 2011The growing emphasis on market-based incentives to spur low-carbon investment is creating a need for specialists with a unique combination of skills – and the world's leading universities need to develop similarly interdisciplinary programmes to meet the needs of the environmental finance marketplace, says Mark DeAngelis
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Waiting on supply
04 April 2011IETA's Simone Ruiz set out one blueprint for green bonds at the recent inaugural Environmental Bonds conference in London. Mark Nicholls reports
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Fukushima disaster poses hard questions on climate targets
04 April 2011Climate targets will be harder to meet and ambitious nuclear building programmes around the world will become more expensive, commentators said, in the aftermath of the suspected Fukushima meltdown.
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California's carbon caveat emptor
04 April 2011Rules designed to protect the environmental integrity of California's carbon offset programme create unmanageable risks for investors that will reduce its efficiency, say Cameron Prell and Adam Raphaely
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How loan guarantees help
04 April 2011Jonathan Silver explains how the US Department of Energy's loan guarantee programme is supporting clean energy technologies, creating jobs and reducing emissions
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UK urged to convert nuclear stockpile into economic opportunity
31 March 2011The UK should turn its stockpiles of spent nuclear fuel into a £10 billion ($16 billion) economic opportunity, according to a report from the Smith School of Enterprise and Environment.
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Invest before lights turned out on US renewables subsidies – BNEF
31 March 2011Renewable energy financing will continue to recover this year, but project developers should take advantage of incentives offered by the US federal government while they still can, according to a Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) analyst.
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Investors give thumbs up for NEST ESG commitment
31 March 2011The UK's national pension scheme is to integrate environmental, social and governance (ESG) analysis across all its asset classes, and has signed up to the UN-backed Principles of Responsible Investment (PRI), winning plaudits from sustainable investment groups.
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US clean-tech finance boutique expands into Europe
31 March 2011Greentech Capital Advisors has opened a European office and announced the hire of a senior executive from nuclear power firm Areva.