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Call to financiers to fund emerging markets renewables revolution
28 October 2013Financiers need to help the renewables industry shift its focus from the "dying" Western subsidies market and embrace the "phenomenal revolution" in emerging markets, a conference heard.
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NGOs claim victory as Arctic drilling platform plans scrapped
25 October 2013Plans to build two Arctic oil drilling platforms have been scrapped after environmentalists warned the project's financiers that the activities would jeopardise the future of one of the most endangered whale species.
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Investors and businesses lobby for early EU ETS reform
25 October 2013A group of 53 businesses, investors and trade associations has called on the European Commission to bring forward, to the end of this year, draft legislation to reform the beleaguered EU Emissions Trading System (ETS).
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$3trn investor coalition heaps 'stranded asset' pressure on fossil fuel firms
24 October 2013A coalition of investors worth $3 trillion has joined forces to write to 45 of the biggest oil and gas companies demanding how they are dealing with the threat of 'stranded assets'.
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Renewables company bond issue raises three times its target
24 October 2013A UK renewable energy supplier has raised £15 million ($24 million) – three times its initial target – in an oversubscribed bond issue.
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The hunt for Green Alpha
24 October 2013Environmental Finance speaks to market players who see the climate change and resource scarcity themes as an opportunity, to track down the sectors and stocks that are currently exciting them
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World Bank seeks new carbon head
24 October 2013Joëlle Chassard is to retire as manager of the World Bank's carbon finance unit at the end of the month, according to a newsletter from the Bank.
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China's battle with smog to drive up water stress, warns report
24 October 2013China's recently announced effort to combat the smog blighting its eastern cities will exacerbate the water stress facing the country, a new report has warned.
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Next-generation biofuels maker raises $52m in $110m debt round
24 October 2013A next-generation biofuels company has raised $52 million from three unidentified investors, as part of a $110 million financing round.
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Vattenfall joins calls for 'EU carbon central bank'
23 October 2013The head of one of Europe's largest utilities has joined calls to set up a body regulating the supply of allowances in the continent's beleaguered emissions trading system.