Analysis

• COP Blog: REDD+ still has room to grow

  08 December 2014

  There has been an air of anticipation about what this COP might deliver on REDD+, the evolving UNFCCC mitigation mechanism on deforestation, forest degradation and other forest uses which first arose on the COP agenda in 2005.

• Decarbonisation driver

  04 December 2014

  The Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund is leading the charge in decarbonising its equities portfolio, and is calling on other investors to follow its lead. Its CEO Mats Andersson tells Peter Cripps why

• COP Blog: The principles to fuel effective climate policy

  02 December 2014

  The climate community faces a formidable task in Lima over the next two weeks. To reach a meaningful global agreement in Paris next year, we need to ensure that every dollar of climate finance accomplishes as much as it possibly can. This requires discipline and rigor in the new tools being developed and a deliberate focus beyond reducing emissions.

• One year on from BAML's $500m green bond

  27 November 2014

  Bank of America Merrill Lynch's (BAML) $500 million issue in November 2013 made it, arguably, the first issuer of a corporate use of proceeds green bond.

• Renewables subsidies: Between a ROC and a hard place

  25 November 2014

  Many renewables developers now face a choice between ROCs and CfDs. What are their pros and cons?

• People moves

  20 November 2014

  A round-up of the latest new appointments and moves in the industry, including changes at Calvert, SEP and Jupiter

• The carbon market is dead, long live the carbon market

  20 November 2014

  The boom has been followed by near-bust for the EU's carbon market, and the ensuing malaise has caused many to quit. But we have reached an inflection point, and carbon emissions trading now has a bright future, argues Louis Redshaw

• Profile: Neil Eckert - Aggregated Micro Power

  18 November 2014

  Former Climate Exchange CEO Neil Eckert believes small-scale biomass has an important and potentially lucrative role to play in the energy transition. Peter Cripps reports on his latest venture

• Green bonds: of indexes, verifiers and the pursuit of standards

  13 November 2014

  The question of what is green continues to haunt the green bond market, says Peter Cripps

• PCIs: upgrading the EU's power grid

  12 November 2014

  Billions of euros of investment is needed to build interconnectors in the EU to increase security of energy supply and help integrate renewables. Tomas Gärdfors looks at the opportunities for investors