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  • From the national to the global

    01 February 2009

    I must admit to some scepticism over recent months as to the likelihood of a 'Green New Deal' emerging as a response to the economic turmoil in which the world finds itself. Governments were more likely, it seemed, to rush to save jobs in struggling sectors of the old economy than attempt to create jobs in the fledgling sectors of the new.

  • People moves this month

    01 February 2009

    Comings and goings in Environmental Finance this month

  • A blueprint for action

    01 February 2009

    Leading US businesses and NGOs have come together to offer a painstakingly negotiated blueprint for measures to tackle climate change. Federal legislators should take note, says Eileen Claussen

  • Corralling the cowboys

    01 February 2009

    As voluntary carbon market participants brace themselves for the effect of the global slowdown, Christopher Cundy reports on how the market's earlier problems are being addressed

  • Registeries - ticked off?

    01 February 2009

    If 2008 was the year when voluntary carbon standards established themselves, then 2009 should be the year for their registries.

  • Price pressure

    01 February 2009

    America's progression towards mandatory carbon emissions trading looks set to continue to support prices in its voluntary carbon market – but things look bleaker elsewhere, finds Thomas Marcello

  • Counting the cost of offsetting

    01 February 2009

    Times are tough, but offsetting emissions can still make economic as well as environmental sense. Bill Burtis explains how organisations should approach offsetting

  • When is a REC not an offset?

    01 February 2009

    Renewable energy certificates (RECs, green tags or green certificates) represent the quantified non-emissions of a clean form of energy – as measured by how many tonnes of a regulated pollutant would have been emitted in creating that energy from a non-clean form. Those non-emissions are called 'environmental attributes'.

  • A sustainable reinvention

    01 February 2009

    The financial sector needs to reinvent itself in the aftermath of the credit crunch. Sustainable investment should be central to that reinvention, say Cary Krosinsky and Nick Robins

  • Offsets and Olympics

    01 February 2009

    British Columbia is blazing a trail with its government's pledge to go carbon neutral, and in the development of carbon offset standards. Barbara Hendrickson, Marty Venalainen and Rosanne Van Schie explain