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Directory to connect up renewables firms with capital
20 October 2011The American Council On Renewable Energy (ACORE) and data provider Clean Energy pipeline have launched an online directory to help renewables project developers and entrepreneurs find investors.
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Financiers search for sustainable future
20 October 2011Finance experts gathered in Washington, DC this week to decide how the sector can contribute to creating a stable and sustainable economy.
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CSAPR allowances allocated, but emitters remain wary
19 October 2011Emitters across 28 US states received their first allowances under the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) new sulphur dioxide (SO2) and nitrous oxide (NOx) trading programme yesterday – but a deluge of legal challenges and unhappy precedents continue to discourage trading.
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Investors repeat call for 'investment-grade' climate policy
19 October 2011Investors managing $20 trillion in assets have repeated a call for urgent "policy action" to stimulate private sector investment into solutions to climate change.
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Ceres offers investors 'water gauge', praises Nestle, Rio Tinto
19 October 2011Investor coalition Ceres has launched a tool to help investors manage water risks across their investment portfolios.
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What future for Asia's carbon markets?
19 October 2011China and India have led the way in supplying carbon offsets into European and Japanese markets but, as the end of 2012 looms, it's all change for Asia's emission reduction project developers. Joshua Speckman reports
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Engaging with water risk
19 October 2011For most investors, a detailed bottom-up assessment of water risk across hundreds of companies is likely to be impossible. Enter a new tool to assess corporate responses to water risk and opportunity. Brooke Barton and David Hampton explain
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First UK councils LEEP to energy retrofits
18 October 2011Local authorities are making moves to fund energy efficiency retrofits of private and social housing in their jurisdictions through the UK's Green Deal, with the ultimate aim of refinancing the projects through bonds in three or four years.
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Wrapping its arms around REDD+
18 October 2011South-east Asia is becoming a laboratory for REDD+ projects, policies and regulations. Joe Heffernan surveys the landscape
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Gap in clean energy insurance slows development – CalCEF
17 October 2011The US government should establish a reinsurance programme to support the roll-out of innovative clean technologies, according to a white paper.