Archive

  • Coalition questions EBRD and IFC?financing for ArcelorMittal

    01 June 2008

    Multilateral banks are under fire for continuing to finance the expansion of ArcelorMittal, despite the steel giant's questionable record on meeting environmental, social and human rights standards.

  • After Andrew and Katrina

    01 June 2008

    It took Hurricane Andrew to create the catastrophe risk market, and Hurricane Katrina really to prove its worth. Not even the sub-prime crisis has blown it off its course, says Albert Selius

  • Supply chains targeted to disclose carbon risk

    01 June 2008

    The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) is sending a second series of questionnaires to more than 1,000 companies supplying major multinational businesses, to try to understand better the climate risks in supply chains.

  • Beating the credit crunch

    01 June 2008

    Despite the credit crunch, clean-tech entrepreneurs can still raise money, says Alexander Munro – and here's how

  • Troubled carbon firms set for takeovers

    01 June 2008

    Carbon project developers Econergy and AgCert are both set to be taken over, following troubled times for both firms.

  • To the Equator and beyond

    01 June 2008

    This month, and this issue of Environmental Finance, mark the fifth anniversary of the Equator Principles. Five years ago, 10 private sector banks came together to announce that they would voluntarily commit to applying these environmental and social principles to their project finance business.

  • New Forests wins investment from Generation

    01 June 2008

    Generation Investment Management has taken a minority equity stake in Sydney-based New Forests, an investment management and advisory services firm managing more than $150 million in forestry and environmental assets.

  • Five years around the Equator

    01 June 2008

    In terms of their uptake, the Equator Principles have been a runaway success. But what effect have they actually had on how banks manage the social and environmental risks in project finance? Jess McCabe reports

  • India-UK clean energy initiative launched

    01 June 2008

    The Commonwealth Business Council (CBC) has launched an initiative to promote alternative energy development and conservation in India.

  • The disclosure challenge

    01 June 2008

    It's all very well for banks to sign up to the Equator Principles – but how are stakeholders to assess their effectiveness? Esther Garcia consider how banks should report on their implementation