Analysis

• Independent Glennmont remains bullish on renewables

  13 February 2015

  Glennmont Partners is one of Europe's largest clean energy investors, having raised €937 million since 2009. CEO Joost Bergsma tells Graham Cooper how the firm – and the market – has evolved.

• Businesses must turn up the pressure ahead of Paris

  11 February 2015

  As climate negotiators meet in Geneva, Dirk Forrister argues that businesses have a key role to play helping shape policy on the road to Paris

• EU carbon market weekly update - 9 February 2015

  09 February 2015

  After a quiet week in which EU allowance prices drifted lower, Louis Redshaw says there are few reasons for them to reverse direction this week.

• The best performing funds of 2014: Green Century Equity Fund

  05 February 2015

  Ditching fossil fuels was a catalyst for outperforming its benchmark, says Erin Gray

• Aviation emission allowances: prepared for take-off

  05 February 2015

  Carbon is well and truly back on the agenda for the aviation sector in 2015. Airlines should prepare for the risk that the price of emission allowances could lift significantly in coming years, argue Louis Redshaw and Julien Dufour.

• How should the EU carbon market be redesigned?

  04 February 2015

  A Market Stability Reserve (MSR) has been proposed to deal with the oversupply of allowances that has depressed prices and trading activity in the EU emissions trading system (ETS) in recent years. Several designs for the MSR have been proposed, with varying impacts on EUA prices, say analysts at ICIS Tschach Solutions in a new White Paper.

• The best performing funds of 2014: Ecofi Enjeux Futurs

  03 February 2015

  Finding firms that help address challenges caused by environmental pressures and the growing global population helped produce benchmark-beating results. Fund manager Olivier Plaisant talks to Peter Cripps

• EU carbon market weekly update - 2 February 2015

  02 February 2015

  EU allowances are likely to see further minor price gains this week, says Louis Redshaw.

• People moves

  02 February 2015

  A round-up of the latest new appointments and moves in the industry, including changes at Abengoa, Rabobank and Solarcentury.

• The best performing funds of 2014: RobecoSAM Smart Energy

  29 January 2015

  2014 was a tumultuous year many alternative energy investors, but fund manager Thiemo Lang tells Peter Cripps how a 'very active' approach helped it outperform its peers.