Analysis

• A review of the green bond market in 2014

  18 December 2014

  The green bond market trebled in size in 2014 - but who were the big winners and can the breakneck speed of expansion continue, asks Peter Cripps

• COP Blog: The role of the Green Climate Fund in providing the missing 'Clean Trillion'

  17 December 2014

  Lima had been touted as the climate finance COP - and in many ways it was.

• What does 'the Lima call to climate action' mean for investors?

  16 December 2014

  The UN climate negotiations in Lima ended with a 'call to climate action' but, for many, the meagre progress was disappointing, reports Katie Kouchakji

• A survivors' market

  11 December 2014

  After some tough years in the traded environmental markets, the survivors have weathered the storm and see better times ahead

• Growing demand, whatever the weather

  11 December 2014

  The weather risk management market continues to grow, and is extending its reach into new regions. Mark Nicholls reports

• A record-breaking year?

  11 December 2014

  The catastrophe risk management market has been buoyed by an influx of capital in 2014, writes Peter Cripps

• The only way is up

  11 December 2014

  This year's winners in the carbon markets section of our annual rankings believe the tide has finally turned after the economic downturn in 2008 sent prices and volumes tumbling. Graham Cooper and Sophie Robinson-Tillett report

• Trading in good times, and in bad

  11 December 2014

  Players in the US RECs markets are bullish on pricing, but other markets are less upbeat, reports Sophie Robinson-Tillett

• COP Blog: Don't turn the GCF into the Greedy Corporate Fund

  10 December 2014

  Last week, the UN Climate Summit in Lima, Peru, kicked off amid controversy with news that Japan had counted loans for coal projects in Indonesia as international climate finance.

• COP Blog: Why finance matters to the UN talks - and business

  09 December 2014

  As the first week of the UN negotiations in Lima wrap up, the Green Climate Fund (GCF) is closer to the mythical $10 billion initial capitalisation goal that someone, somewhere decided would be the threshold for success.