Archive

  • Vodafone scoops CSR report award

    01 April 2008

    Vodafone Group's corporate responsibility (CR) report has been voted the best published in 2007. The award is one of nine organised by CorporateRegister.com, which claims to have the world's largest directory of CR reports

  • Shareholders claim records on climate resolutions

    01 April 2008

    Shareholders pursuing US companies for commitments on global warming have claimed two record successes. Investor group Ceres reported that an unprecedented 54 shareholder resolutions on this issue have been filed for the 2008 reporting season and, at press time, a record 20 had been withdrawn after shareholders and companies reached agreements.

  • World Bank offers catastrophe loan

    01 April 2008

    The World Bank has launched a new loan facility that will deliver $500 million of emergency funding to countries hit by natural disasters.

  • FTSE4Good drops seven firms on climate change

    01 April 2008

    Chemical firms Lanxess and Eastman, German cement manufacturer Heidelberg­Cement and Scottish oil and gas firm Cairn Energy are among seven companies deleted from the FTSE4­Good index family for failing to meet its climate change criteria. They failed either to have adequate governance systems or policies in place, or adequately disclose climate change information.

  • A shifting kaleidoscope

    01 April 2008

    The global biofuels industry is realigning, says Ben Warren, as sustainability concerns, shifting support schemes, and changing agricultural markets exert differing pressures across the value chain

  • Reassessing risk

    01 April 2008

    On the face of it, Bear Stearns' collapse does not appear to have a great deal to do with climate change. The venerable Wall Street institution was brought to its knees by the investment banking equivalent of an old-fashioned run on its assets, by investors and counterparties who had no confidence that the bank could make good on its commitments.

  • An enterprise-wide approach

    01 April 2008

    The emergence of the derivatives business forced banks to take a new approach to risk management. It is time to apply those lessons to carbon, says Ron Dembo

  • Changing the financing climate

    01 April 2008

    The European Investment Bank's lending policy has changed radically to meet the challenge of global warming, Christopher Cundy reports

  • Back to the drawing board

    01 April 2008

    Allison Wood unpicks the US Court of Appeals ruling that gutted the EPA's mercury trading proposals – and suggests the story doesn't end here

  • Can carbon make nuclear pay?

    01 April 2008

    The US nuclear industry is hopeful that the introduction of carbon trading will help finance a new generation of nuclear power plants. But the European experience may give them pause. Jess McCabe reports