Archive

  • To the third generation

    01 November 2006

    The Global Reporting Initiative may be nearly 10 years old, and on its third iteration, but the reporting it advocates is no less controversial. Jess McCabe reports from Amsterdam

  • Takara weather fund morphs into RenRe

    01 October 2006

    Weather and energy hedge fund Takara Capital Management has closed, but the business will continue within Renaissance Reinsurance, a Bermuda-based insurance and reinsurance group specialising in natural catastrophe risk.

  • CME considers Canada

    01 October 2006

    The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) is considering expanding its suite of weather derivative products into Canada, according to Felix Carabello, director of alternative investment products at the exchange.

  • The fuels of the future?

    01 October 2006

    Production of biofuels is rocketing, underpinned by strong ­regulatory support. Ronnie Lim considers the prospects for the industry, and flags up some companies to watch

  • NOx cap-and-trade scheme brings down emissions

    01 October 2006

    Nitrous oxides (NOx) emissions in the eastern US fell 11% in 2005 compared with 2004, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, in its latest report on the NOx Budget Trading Program.

  • An inconvenient state?

    01 October 2006

    California's climate change legislation marks a dramatic step forward in US efforts to tackle greenhouse gas ­emissions. Douglas Smith considers its implications

  • US EPA 'simplifies' New Source Review

    01 October 2006

    The US Environmental Protection Agency has proposed changes that it says will simplify the New Source Review (NSR) programme for power and industrial plants.

  • Let a thousand wind farms bloom

    01 October 2006

    In wind energy, as in everything else, China is set to become a global giant. But the development of wind farms and a domestic turbine manufacturing base are far from plain ­sailing, as Michael Rank reports

  • Investors to pour $80 billion into ethanol by 2021

    01 October 2006

    Investment in ethanol plants will top $80 billion over the next 15 years, according to a report by the McIlvaine Company.

  • Doing something about disclosure

    01 October 2006

    September has become the month of carbon disclosure. At events around the globe – after a launch in New York on the 18th – the findings of the latest Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) were unveiled to the world.