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'Grim picture' for environmental investing set to brighten?
11 November 2010Institutional investors are risk averse, time-poor and "carbon and climate fatigued", making it difficult to generate interest in environmentally-orientated investing, according to a leading investment consultant.
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Czech solar revisions spark investor uncertainty
11 November 2010The Czech Republic has slashed solar incentives in a bid to curb rising electricity prices, however a series of new taxes imposed on power generators has deepened investor uncertainty, observers say.
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SRI investment growth outpaces wider US market
11 November 2010Growth in socially responsible and sustainable investments (SRI) has substantially outpaced the broader US market, despite the economic recession, according to the latest bi-annual study from the Social Investment Forum (SIF).
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Biofuel firm sends pork fat flying
11 November 2010A biofuel plant in Louisiana is turning chicken fat and pork lard into renewable diesel, in what its joint venture partners say is the first commercial-scale advanced biofuels facility in the US.
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Lessons from Nagoya
11 November 2010The biodiversity agreement in Nagoya is to be welcomed – but a dose of realism on financing is well overdue, says Mark Nicholls
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Banking on biodiversity
09 November 2010Biodiversity is low on the radar screen of financial institutions, or even non-existent. But, in the wake of the Nagoya Protocol, financiers are awakening to a world where environmental and social phenomena are increasingly becoming financially material, say Ivo Mulder and Jessica Boucher
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Making timberland investment a safe bet
09 November 2010Valuing timberland is a complex business and, with new environmental revenue streams, becoming more so. Steve Palmer explains how sophisticated software is coming to the rescue
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Scarce, and getting scarcer
09 November 2010Could the looming scarcity of so-called rare metals put the brakes on the clean energy revolution – or generate new opportunities for recyclers? Lydia Heida reports
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People moves
09 November 2010The latest appointments at Globalance Capital, Swiss Banking Group, Environmental Financial Products, GE, Scottish Widows Investment Partnership and more.
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How cellphones can help save the planet
08 November 2010The lessons of the mobile phone revolution should be applied to the fight against climate change, according to the International Finance Corporation's new climate head. Mark Nicholls reports