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Marsh eyes opportunities in renewables and clean-tech
29 November 2011Booming investment in renewable energy has led insurance broker and risk advisor Marsh to form a renewable power and clean-tech practice.
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Renewables investors 'confused' about weather risk
29 November 2011Many renewable energy investors and developers are confused about mitigating the effects of weather on plant performance, according to study by Swiss Re and the Economist Intelligence Unit.
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NYSE, BNEF ignore dismal performance to launch new renewables indexes
29 November 2011NYSE Euronext has launched the first of a family of clean energy equity indexes, which it claims will help investors make more targeted investments in the sector.
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EU, US spell out climate finance flows as Durban floods
28 November 2011Representatives from the EU and the US have quantified the amounts pledged to developing countries in climate finance as the two-week Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UN climate convention in Durban got off to a damp start.
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Price under pressure
25 November 2011The latest collapse in the carbon price is once more raising profound questions about the future of the EU's trailblazing emissions trading programme. Mark Nicholls reports
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Industrial air pollution costs Europe €169bn
25 November 2011Air pollution from the 10,000 largest polluting facilities in Europe cost citizens between €102 billion and €169 billion ($137 billion-$226 billion) in 2009, according to the European Environment Agency (EEA).
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Why transport emissions are the key to Durban
24 November 2011A deal on greenhouse gas emissions from the shipping and aviation sectors could form the basis of a deal at Durban, says Mark Lutes of WWF
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Booming biomass demands harmonised sustainability standards – Eurelectric
24 November 2011The EU may need to double its primary biomass supply by 2020 if member states are to meet their renewable energy targets, according to Eurelectric, the trade association for Europe's electricity industry. This will require substantial imports and harmonised criteria on what constitutes sustainable biomass, the association says.
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Meteor eyes £50m for clean energy and carbon fund
24 November 2011Meteor Asset Management has set an initial target of £50 million ($77 million) for its Clean Energy Fund, which will invest mostly in energy projects in developing countries that also generate carbon or other offset credits.
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Insurance leaders lagging on climate investments
24 November 2011Insurance companies are still failing to adequately incorporate climate change risks into their investment portfolios, according to an initiative designed to help the industry respond to global warming.