Archive

  • Feeling the cold?

    01 September 2008

    One year on, and the banking sector's recovery from the credit crunch seems no closer. So what does this mean for their emerging environmental markets businesses? Tricia Holly Davis reports

  • More action than meets the eye?

    01 September 2008

    India's recently unveiled climate change action plan disappointed many foreign observers. But, say Bishal Thapa and Ritika Goel, they should look again

  • The age of substantiation

    01 September 2008

    Companies 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

  • Why it's still time to invest in carbon

    01 September 2008

    The '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

  • Lessons from China to the City

    01 September 2008

    Engagement with China on its human rights, governance and environmental record can inform engagement with multinational corporations, and vice versa, says Peter Kinder

  • The Shaw line

    01 September 2008

    As 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

  • Meeting the measurement challenge

    01 September 2008

    For 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

  • The environment on the stump

    01 September 2008

    Eight 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

  • The path to optimisation

    01 September 2008

    Andreas Wiese explains how to analyse the risk and ensure the financial optimisation of portfolios of renewable energy projects

  • People moves this month

    01 September 2008

    JON 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.