Archive

  • EU aims for 25% cut in car emissions

    01 March 2007

    The European Commission has proposed mandatory targets to compel car makers to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2)?emissions from new cars by around 25% by 2012.

  • French scheme awards €1.2bn SRI mandates

    01 March 2007

    ERAFP, the French public service pension scheme, has awarded mandates to four socially responsible investment (SRI) managers, to make equity investments expected to top €1.2 billion ($1.6 billion) over the next four years.

  • The lull before the storm?

    01 March 2007

    As far as natural catastrophes are concerned, the insurance industry – and the planet – got off lightly in 2006.?But the world's largest insurers warn that worse is to come. Jess McCabe reports

  • Carbon credits prove elusive for biofuels

    01 March 2007

    There is still no system to allow developers of biofuel projects to trade in carbon emission reductions, says Caitlin Randall

  • Bubble or no bubble?

    01 March 2007

    Comparing the Nasdaq with an index of clean energy stocks might reassure investors fearing a renewable energy bubble. But irrational exuberance might still undo the unwary, says Michael Liebreich

  • The public face of private equity

    01 March 2007

    For a section of the financial world that prefers – by definition – to operate as far away from the public gaze as possible, the private equity business has recently been attracting some unwelcome attention.

  • All-out auctions?

    01 March 2007

    New York's bold proposal to auction all allowances under its proposed carbon trading programme raises crucial questions, says Roman Kramarchuk

  • Liability and litigation

    01 March 2007

    The stage is set for a soaring environmental insurance market in Europe, but uncertainties remain on the implications of key EU legislation, reports Christopher Cundy

  • Putting a premium on emissions

    01 March 2007

    The carbon markets are immature, risky and uncertain – and there is a desperate need for insurance solutions. Julian Richardson looks at how insurers are beginning to step up to the challenge

  • Where the climate change buck stops

    01 March 2007

    If, as is often said, insurance companies are on the front line of climate change, investors might want to know which are most likely to dodge the first bullets. Gregory Larkin identifies the potential survivors