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RWE launches renewables venture capital fund
07 October 2010The renewables division of German power giant RWE has launched a €75 million ($105 million) venture capital fund to invest in renewable energy technologies.
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US clean water company eyes $50m AIM listing
07 October 2010Water purification and anti-microbial technology company HaloSource hopes to fuel its global expansion by listing on the UK's Alternative Investment Market (AIM).
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Many risks hinder private sector climate finance - report
07 October 2010Institutional investors have the capacity and appetite to provide finance to help countries mitigate and adapt to climate change but, "the returns must be commensurate with the risks", said Michael Wilkins, global head of carbon markets at rating agency Standard & Poor's.
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UBS establishes clean-tech, renewables banking group
07 October 2010Swiss banking group UBS has formed a global renewable energy and clean-tech group, bringing together bankers from its technology, power and utilities and industrial teams.
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US utilities to meet clean energy targets with coal, nuclear?
07 October 2010Nuclear and cleaner coal would be considered eligible sources in an alternate clean energy standard proposed in the US Senate last week.
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Climate change to become 'strategic priority' at IFC – group head
07 October 2010The International Finance Corporation (IFC) is to make climate change a "top strategic priority", according to the head of its newly-formed climate business group, as the development bank promises to treble its climate-related investments to $3 billion.
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US sustainable business market seen doubling to $60bn by 2014
07 October 2010Spending on energy efficiency measures, emissions reductions, clean-tech R&D and carbon management by US corporations is set to double by 2014 – with some areas of sustainability spending seeing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 50%, according to research firm Verdantix.
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Bracing for bubbles
07 October 2010Environmental technologies and markets are perhaps uniquely vulnerable to asset bubbles. Sophia Tickell and Alexa Clay examine why – and suggest what policy-makers and investors can do to help
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Putting a premium on education
07 October 2010Europe's weather risk sector is growing in volume and sophistication, but awareness and understanding remain an ongoing challenge. Charlotte Dudley reports
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Blazing a trail in China
07 October 2010China Industrial Bank was the first Chinese bank to sign the Equator Principles. Two years on, Jess McCabe reports on how it is implementing the environmental and social standards