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From promise to reality
07 October 2010It's a safe bet that industrialised world exchequers aren't going to deliver $100 billion a year in climate finance to developing countries by 2020. So where's the money going to come from? Michael Curley considers some options
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India's take on trading
07 October 2010India's imminent energy efficiency trading scheme offers a pragmatic approach to cutting carbon – and might be linked to international carbon markets. Matthew Gray and Shikha Bhasin explain
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Chinese finance on the march
06 October 2010Fresh from two trips to China to meet banks, insurers, regulators and policy-makers, UNEP Finance Initiative head Paul Clements-Hunt talks about his impressions as the country's finance sector marches towards sustainability
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States must, again, drive US climate action
06 October 2010The lack of federal action on climate change means that the effort must come, once more, from the states. Shanna Brownstein examines the tools they are already putting to work
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Keeping to contracts
06 October 2010What is it that environmental policy-makers don't understand about sticking to contracts, asks Mark Nicholls
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Riding a policy rollercoaster
06 October 2010Australia's off-again, on-again federal carbon policy may be difficult to follow, but local and corporate initiatives are steadily bubbling up. Jennifer Lauber Patterson surveys the landscape
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The end of the China Development Mechanism?
06 October 2010China still dominates the Clean Development Mechanism – but its low-carbon growth strategy is moving away from the international carbon market and towards domestic carbon pricing. Joshua Speckman reports
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Looking beyond 2012
06 October 2010With aggressive targets and a range of emissions trading initiatives under way, Japan is preparing to step up its efforts to tackle climate change. But its international role is changing, says Yukimi Shimura
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Taking sustainability into account
06 October 2010Malcolm Preston, global head of sustainability at PwC, says investment throughout the recent recession is paying dividends. He talks to Mark Nicholls
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Some IPOs should be too hot to handle
05 October 2010The planned listing of Coal India is the latest example of how capital markets are failing to price – or even consider – climate change risk, says Mark Campanale