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Trade brawl with China no substitute for US climate policy - experts
21 October 2010The US government's decision to investigate whether China's green energy subsidies violate international trade law is good news for US manufacturers, but does not alleviate the need for a US climate policy that adequately supports the clean energy sector, experts said.
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Ratings agencies failing bond investors over water risk – report
21 October 2010Bond investors are "blindly placing bets" on which US public utilities are best able to manage growing and imminent water risks, Ceres said in a report out today – which partly blames "weak scrutiny" by ratings agencies.
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Enel begins marketing $3bn green energy IPO
21 October 2010Italian utility Enel has begun marketing shares in its renewable energy unit, in Europe's largest initial public offering (IPO) since 2007 – and a key test of sentiment for the embattled clean energy sector.
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Carbon Valuation Post 2012
PwC's climate change team examine the thorny issues around valuing carbon assets on company balance sheets after 2012, in the face of considerable policy uncertainty.
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Can capital markets bridge the climate change financing gap?
It's generally accepted that there is an urgent need for large-scale financing to allow developing countries to mitigate and adapt to climate change. However, there is a yawning gap between the current level of climate change finance (approximately $8 billion per year) and even the conservative estimates by the World Bank for the amount required by developing countries ($90 billion-$210 billion; see footnote 1 at the end of this article).
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Europe's SRI market almost doubles, to €5 trillion, in two years
14 October 2010The value of the European sustainable and responsible investment (SRI) market has almost doubled, to €5 trillion ($7 trillion) over the last two years, according to the European Sustainable Investment Forum (Eurosif).
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UK faces £370bn low-carbon investment gap without GIB
14 October 2010The UK is facing a £370 billion ($591 billion) shortfall in available capital to transform into a low-carbon economy, according to a report by consultancy Ernst & Young, which sets out how the much-anticipated Green Investment Bank (GIB) could close the gap.
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Offshore wind drives clean energy asset financing to record
14 October 2010Investment in clean energy hit $37.9 billion in the third quarter, as a flood of cash into offshore wind infrastructure in the North Sea helped drive a record $32.8 billion in asset financing.
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Caparo, HaloSource raisings boost AIM clean-tech
14 October 2010There are signs of growing clean-tech activity on the UK's Alternative Investment Market (AIM), with wind company Caparo Energy joining the bourse on Tuesday, and a multi-million dollar raising for AIM-hopeful HaloSource.
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Google searching for an offshore wind connection
14 October 2010Google is to invest in a gigantic, $5 billion 'backbone' transmission project, which could connect up 6GW of offshore wind to the eastern US grid.