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  • Qantas eyes jet biofuel from waste facility

    06 January 2011

    Australian airline Qantas is in talks with US biofuel company Solena with a view to building a facility in Sydney to produce jet fuel from organic waste.

  • Clean-tech stock pickers look to energy efficiency again in 2011

    06 January 2011

    Analysts and investors predict last year's gloom for clean-tech stocks will continue in 2011, with few expectations that renewable energy share prices will recover – but energy efficiency is once again tipped to outperform.

  • US climate and energy policy in 2011 – what to watch

    06 January 2011

    Law firm Van Ness Feldman has set out its issues to watch in climate change, clean air and clean energy policy in the US in 2011 – painting a picture of profound policy uncertainty and overlapping and often competing political, regulatory, legislative and legal drivers.

  • Climate bonds standard to be released by April

    05 January 2011

    The Climate Bonds Initiative is to unveil its first labelling standard by the end of March, for wind energy-linked bonds, after securing initial funding for the project.

  • Emerging markets outdo Europe, US on climate index

    05 January 2011

    Significant climate change stimulus spending has helped emerging market stocks in HSBC's Climate Change Index outperform those in the developed world last year.

  • Steady as she goes

    17 December 2010

    Weather risk dealers report a steady, if unspectacular, year in the market, while the catastrophe risk market has been buoyed by growing bond issuance. Charlotte Dudley reports

  • The finance starts to flow

    17 December 2010

    Policy uncertainty has sent a chill through renewable energy markets in 2010, but financing, at least, is starting to thaw. Jess McCabe reports

  • Europe gets smart about metering

    17 December 2010

    The roll-out of smart meters across Europe will become one of the largest and most complex investment programmes ever undertaken in the energy sector. Ronald Hendrikx considers what is at stake

  • Canada on the cusp

    17 December 2010

    Canada has been overlooked by environmental investors but, say Martin Grosskopf and Rachel Davies, its improving policy environment and healthy, resource-based economic fundamentals are positioning it to deliver the next spurt of clean-tech growth

  • Making the case for clean energy

    17 December 2010

    The renewable energy sector has been under particular attack of late, with sceptics taking potshots at its viability and environmental effectiveness. But many of these attacks are flawed or unfounded, say Gabriel Miller, Camilla Sharples and Paul Ho