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SAM, Dow Jones, launch Asian sustainability indexes
05 March 2009Sustainable Asset Management (SAM) and Dow Jones have extended their sustainable investment index family to the Asia-Pacific region, with the launch of the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (DJSI) Asia Pacific and Asia Pacific 40 equity indexes.
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Renewables trading could save EU €17 billion a year – Eurelectric
05 March 2009Allowing EU member states full flexibility to meet their renewable energy targets by trading certificates could save €17 billion ($21 billion) a year by 2020, according to a study commissioned by electricity industry association Eurelectric. But, without any trading, at least six member states will struggle to meet their targets.
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First Solar expands solar project pipeline
05 March 2009First Solar is to acquire the 1,850MW solar project pipeline of developer OptiSolar for approximately $400 million.
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Clean energy investment too low – analysts
05 March 2009Investment in clean energy is currently far short of levels necessary to avert dangerous climate change, and the economic downturn is likely to exacerbate the problem, according to analysis company New Energy Finance (NEF).
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Thriving pellet sector faces competition as it seeks feedstock
04 March 2009The growing wood pellet industry will compete increasingly with pulp and paper firms for woodchips and pulp logs as its raw material, as supplies of its traditional sawdust and sawmill shavings prove inadequate, forecast a new report.
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Time to intervene?
01 March 2009The anaemic price of carbon allowances is generating growing anxiety about the role of emissions trading in tackling climate change, and some predictably confused reporting. It is also generating calls for intervention in the market to ensure that a sufficiently high price signal is transmitted to change corporate behaviour.
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People moves this month
01 March 2009Comings and goings in Environmental Finance this month
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An evolving role for international offsets
01 March 2009The Clean Development Mechanism is playing an important role in the international climate regime and the EU Emissions Trading Scheme – but business as usual is not an option, say Jos Delbeke and Peter Zapfel
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The path to US participation
01 March 2009The evolution of a domestic US carbon market is intimately interwoven with the stance of the new administration on the international stage – and the shape of both is beginning to emerge, say James Heath, Aleka Seville and Tuomas Rautanen
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From sea to shining sea
01 March 2009Three regional greenhouse gas emissions trading schemes are under way or planned in the US. No fewer than 10 bills proposing federal carbon caps have been drafted by Congress. Katie Kouchakji summarises the key features of the regional schemes (left). Below we set out the salient features of the leading cap-and-trade bills and chart their projected emission trajectories