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The age of substantiation
01 September 2008Companies meeting commitments to corporate social responsibility using the voluntary environmental markets are driving the latter's triple-digit growth. But, say John Melby and Reiner Musier, it's not just about doing the right thing – it's about being able to prove it
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Why it's still time to invest in carbon
01 September 2008The 'low-hanging fruit' may have been picked, and the 2012 Kyoto deadline is fast approaching. But, argues Adrien Assous, carbon remains a highly attractive alternative asset
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Lessons from China to the City
01 September 2008Engagement with China on its human rights, governance and environmental record can inform engagement with multinational corporations, and vice versa, says Peter Kinder
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The Shaw line
01 September 2008As founder of EEA Fund Management, Simon Shaw has led some of the most successful investments in environmental and carbon markets. He tells Christopher Cundy how he did it
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Meeting the measurement challenge
01 September 2008For too long, asset owners have had few means of assessing the real environmental, social and governance skills of their asset managers. Jonathan Horton explains how a new benchmark can help both sides measure and manage ESG issues
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The environment on the stump
01 September 2008Eight years of federal foot-dragging on climate change are set to be reversed come January – whichever candidate wins the keys to the White House. But, as Gloria Gonzalez reports, the apparent similarities of the two presidential candidates' energy and climate policies mask profound differences
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The path to optimisation
01 September 2008Andreas Wiese explains how to analyse the risk and ensure the financial optimisation of portfolios of renewable energy projects
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People moves this month
01 September 2008JON WILLIAMS, head of group sustainable development at HSBC, is to leave the banking giant to take up a new role as partner, sustainability and climate change, at PricewaterhouseCoopers in London.
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US?renewables industry looks to new energy bill
01 September 2008The latest effort to renew the production tax credit (PTC) for the renewable energy industry stalled in the US Senate on 30 July, when supporters fell short of the 60 votes needed to stop debate. However, an extension to the PTC is to be incorporated into a compromise energy bill likely to be introduced in September.
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US cities sign up to carbon disclosure
01 September 2008Dozens of US cities will measure and disclose their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in a new carbon disclosure initiative designed to replicate the benefits similar projects have created in the corporate sector.