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  • The enlightened investor

    05 April 2013

    Aviva Investors' chief responsible investment officer tells Peter Cripps how the firm is integrating environmental, social and governance issues into all its assets under management

  • Environmental Finance, IHS to host ESG data webinar

    04 April 2013

    Environmental Finance is partnering with IHS to host a webinar on sustainability reporting, designed to help companies manage the growing risks in this area.

  • BP to sell wind business

    04 April 2013

    BP is to sell its US wind energy business and refocus on its core activities, marking the oil major's latest retreat from renewables.

  • Solar firms pull together to facilitate finance

    04 April 2013

    Markets thrive on standardisation – and a new initiative from the US solar sector to come to a common view on risk aims to unlock new financial products. Gloria Gonzalez reports

  • Unlocking the energy efficiency opportunity

    04 April 2013

    Making buildings, transport and industrial operations more energy efficient will play a key role in limiting climate change – yet progress has proved slow. Elza Holmstedt Pell reports

  • Anglo: engaging with climate policy

    04 April 2013

    Climate change is already a reality for miner Anglo American – which makes its engagement with the climate policy process all the more important, says Sam Hoe-Richardson

  • Attracting low-cost capital to clean energy

    03 April 2013

    Michael Eckhart introduces a proposal for a new public-private partnership – the Sustainable Development Bond Assurance Corporation – that could provide risk insurance to support the issuance of bonds to finance clean energy projects around the world

  • Romania's plans to overhaul green certificate scheme could 'deter investors'

    03 April 2013

    Romania is planning to slash subsidies for new renewable power plants and hold back some of the green certificates that existing installations are set to receive up to 2017 – a move observers say could deter investors from the country's booming renewables sector.

  • Ecosystem services rising up agenda for bank economists

    03 April 2013

    There is greater willingness among investment bank economists to discuss incorporating ecosystem services into their economic modelling and "a much greater level of informed discussion" on the topic, according to three fund managers.

  • EPA sets higher mercury pollution limit for new power plants

    03 April 2013

    The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has raised the proposed mercury emissions limits for new power plants, after complaints that the initial targets were not achievable.