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Competitive markets
01 June 2009Despite the credit crunch, activity on carbon exchanges is heating up – as is competition between them. Christopher Cundy reports
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Chicago and New York go head to head
01 June 2009The Chicago Climate Futures Exchange (CCFE) is emerging as the trading platform of choice for the US carbon market as the federal government presses forward with the potential adoption of a federal cap-and-trade system. The Green Exchange, led by the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) and brokerage Evolution
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Growing on trees?
01 June 2009Investing in forestry and timber assets is nothing new. But investors are increasingly seeing the attraction of more sustainable forestry investments. Tom Fitzherbert-Brockholes reports
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Where next for sustainable forestry investment?
01 June 2009At present, sustainable forestry and timber investments are largely focused on gaining revenue from capital appreciation and timber-related products, with a small percentage looking to the voluntary carbon markets. The future could be quite different.
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A lack of interest?
01 June 2009Given the banking sector's fundamental role in the global economy and the fundamental economic threats posed by environmental issues, equity analysts covering the sector might be expected to care about banks' environmental reporting. Not so, found Richard Slack
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Responding to recession
01 June 2009The Low Carbon Accelerator has been put on the defensive by the economic gloom, but the venture capital fund's star companies are growing at a rate of knots. Jess McCabe reports
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Inflation, innovation and the carbon market
01 June 2009An investment in carbon assets doesn't just confer the right to emit greenhouse gases – it also offers potential hedges against inflation and the failure of technological innovation, says Gerrity Lansing
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Transport starts to move
01 June 2009President Obama's recent deal on fuel efficiency with the beleaguered US car industry is the latest evidence of the environmental pressures coming to bear on the transport sector. Sarbjit Nahal and Valéry Lucas-Leclin consider which stocks are set to benefit
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An emerging imperative
01 June 2009Brazil's banks were early adopters of the Equator Principles – and Banco Itaú's Marcelo Battisti has become the first chairman of the group's steering committee to come from an emerging market insitution. He talks to Mark Nicholls
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New fund manager aiming for €200m enviro fund-of-funds
28 May 2009A recently launched fund manager claiming "depth and breadth" in experience is understood to be hoping to raise €200 million ($279 million) into a low-carbon technology private equity fund of funds.