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  • HKEx examining emissions

    01 September 2007

    Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEx) is investigating the possibility of listing emissions-related products.

  • Showdown looms in US Congress over renewables, cars

    01 September 2007

    The US Congress faces a showdown in the autumn over renewables and automobile efficiency as leaders from the Senate and House of Representatives try to reconcile energy legislation

  • Chicago drags Goldman, BoA into BP boycott

    01 September 2007

    The City of Chicago may boycott BP over emissions from a nearby refinery, and is to cut Goldman Sachs and Bank of America out of lucrative bond underwriting business, as they have officers on the oil major's board.

  • Latest Senate climate bills look overseas

    01 September 2007

    The two latest Senate bills aiming to cap US greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have opened a new front in the climate debate – targeting US trading partners that fail to cut carbon.

  • Climate change resolutions up

    01 September 2007

    Investors filed a record 43 climate-related resolutions with US companies during the 2007 proxy season, according to Ceres, a coalition of investors and environmental groups that helped co-ordinate the shareholder filings.

  • Aussie exchange buys into water, plans clean-tech market

    01 September 2007

    An Australian stock exchange specialising in small, medium and regional businesses has acquired Australia's largest independent water market operator for A$10.75 million (US$8.8 million) and will follow this next month with the launch of a sustainability and clean-tech investment market.

  • Environmental markets seen dodging financial crisis

    01 September 2007

    Capital for financing clean technologies and to trade in environmental markets could get harder to find, some financiers warn, as the effects of losses in the US mortgage markets make themselves felt more widely. But most believe that financing renewable energy is likely to remain attractive, and some argue that environmental markets will offer investors returns that are uncorrelated with equity and debt markets.

  • More carbon cuts from shareholders, consumers than emissions trading?

    01 September 2007

    Pressure from consumers and shareholders to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases is having more of an impact on many large companies than the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), according to some emissions specialists.

  • Renewable investment 'to reach $750bn by 2016'

    01 September 2007

    World-wide investment in renewable energy could pass the $750 billion mark by 2016, Ernst & Young predicts.

  • Italian business offered hot weather bet

    01 September 2007

    Merrill Lynch has launched a temperature-linked investment product that will allow farmers and retailers in Italy to mitigate against the impacts of hot weather on crop yields or sales.