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  • The role of the reinsurers

    06 April 2011

    Climate change is already changing the patterns of extreme weather around the world – posing challenges for the insurance sector, but also opening up market opportunities, says Peter Höppe

  • California's renewables target to be undermined by weaker Senate bill?

    06 April 2011

    California's aggressive targets on renewable energy could be weakened by too much flexibility and a lack of sanctions for failing utilities, a leading analyst has warned.

  • Norway makes first payment to Guyana under pioneering forest carbon deal

    06 April 2011

    Norway is to immediately transfer $40 million to Guyana in the first payment under a novel deal to protect the South American country's forests.

  • CDP investors' demands shift from disclosure to mitigation

    06 April 2011

    A 'vanguard' group of Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) signatories managing $7.6 trillion of assets have called on the world's largest companies to implement "cost-effective" greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions.

  • US officials vent over lack of clean-tech policy certainty

    05 April 2011

    US government officials working to facilitate investment in the clean-tech sector say they are just as frustrated with the lack of federal policy certainty as private investors.

  • Materiality: a dialogue of the deaf?

    05 April 2011

    Why do investors care so little about most metrics of corporate sustainability? It all comes down to financial materiality, explains Rory Sullivan

  • Breaking down barriers

    04 April 2011

    The growing emphasis on market-based incentives to spur low-carbon investment is creating a need for specialists with a unique combination of skills – and the world's leading universities need to develop similarly interdisciplinary programmes to meet the needs of the environmental finance marketplace, says Mark DeAngelis

  • Waiting on supply

    04 April 2011

    IETA's Simone Ruiz set out one blueprint for green bonds at the recent inaugural Environmental Bonds conference in London. Mark Nicholls reports

  • Fukushima disaster poses hard questions on climate targets

    04 April 2011

    Climate targets will be harder to meet and ambitious nuclear building programmes around the world will become more expensive, commentators said, in the aftermath of the suspected Fukushima meltdown.

  • California's carbon caveat emptor

    04 April 2011

    Rules designed to protect the environmental integrity of California's carbon offset programme create unmanageable risks for investors that will reduce its efficiency, say Cameron Prell and Adam Raphaely