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EU clean energy goals require 'major efforts' – EU leaders
10 February 2011The EU still needs to make "major efforts" to modernise its energy structure and fully develop its renewable energy resources, European heads of state and government agreed during a meeting in Brussels last week. They called on the European Commission to explain by June how it plans to finance these efforts.
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CDP water disclosure investor support jumps
10 February 2011The number of institutional investors backing the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) water disclosure request has jumped 150% to 354, managing $43 trillion in assets.
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Clean-tech legal service launched to streamline documentation
09 February 2011Clean-tech entrepreneurs risk deterring investment or incurring substantial costs because of "piecemeal" legal documentation, according to law firm Simmons & Simmons.
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On the rebound
09 February 2011The easing of the global recession has helped to stabilise the voluntary carbon market while regulatory developments, most notably in California, have prompted an uptick in interest. Charlotte Dudley reports
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REC price secrecy holding back trading in US - experts
08 February 2011A reluctance to share price data is holding back the development of a liquid futures market for renewable energy credits (REC) in the US, according to traders and consultants.
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Green bonds vital to Europe – Barclays
07 February 2011'Green bonds' are set to fill most of a €2.9 trillion ($3.9 trillion) capital hole required to build low-carbon infrastructure in Europe from 2011-20, according to a report by Barclays and consultancy Accenture.
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People moves
04 February 2011The latest appointments at the Principles for Responsible Investment, International Council on Mining and Metals, Aon, EDF Trading and more
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Cleaning up California
04 February 2011Jerry Brown – 'Governor Moonbeam' – is back in charge in California, with a clean energy agenda that is set to lead the US. Felicity Carus reports
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The beginning of the end of Kyoto?
04 February 2011The Cancún conference will be remembered for bringing the international climate talks back from the brink of disaster. But did it also seal the demise of the Kyoto Protocol? Christopher Cundy reports
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Sending out the right signals
04 February 2011Ole Beier Sørenson says investors were reassured that Cancún kept the UN climate talks on the road – but they need clearer signals from policy-makers if finance is to flow