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US still top for biofuel investors – E&Y
01 December 2007The US remains the most attractive country for biofuel investments despite a slow-down caused by factors such as high feedstock prices, over-capacity and distribution difficulties, according to the consultancy Ernst & Young.
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EIB mulling ecosystem, biodiversity fund
01 December 2007The European Investment Bank (EIB) is assessing market interest in an ecosystem and biodiversity fund, with hopes of helping to raise money into such a vehicle in 2008.
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Laying the foundations for growth
01 December 2007Investors may be increasingly backing renewable energy and energy efficiency in Asia – but more could be done to ensure their growth, says Mike Allen
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Putting steel into the ground
01 December 2007By the time this issue of Environmental Finance lands on our readers' desks, the UN climate talks in Bali will have concluded. It's impossible to predict what – if anything – substantive will emerge from the Indonesian island, after two weeks of negotiations, horse-trading, furious lobbying and, indeed, fairly furious reporting.
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Adding a dose of complexity
01 December 2007Emissions trading systems are based on traditional economic theory – but the new discipline of 'complexity economics' raises profound questions over their role in tackling climate change, says Nick Silver
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Learning the lessons from the US credit crunch
01 December 2007John Palmisano considers what lessons investors in green assets can learn from the collapse of the US housing market
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Breaking the green tax logjam
01 December 2007New taxes may be political anathema, but a shift towards environmental taxation must be embraced if we're to tackle climate change, argues Paul Ekins
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Scaling up clean-tech
01 December 2007As head of Citi's clean-tech private equity unit, Andrew de Pass has $2 billion of the bank's capital to invest. He tells Mark Nicholls how he plans to deploy it
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The ramifications of REACH
01 December 2007The effects of the EU's new chemicals legislation will be felt more widely than many might expect. Francois Dauphin considers the compliance and investment challenge posed by Reach
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Investors question EU trading
01 December 2007The European Commission is due in January to unveil proposals for 'burden-sharing' arrangements to meet its EU-wide renewable energy target. But the prospect that this may involve renewable energy trading is being met with caution by investors, as Kirsty Hamilton reports