Analysis

• Succeeding in uncertain times

  09 December 2013

  Having survived another tough year, the winners in Environmental Finance's 14th Annual Market Rankings have proved they can cope with the pain and are poised to prosper when the tide turns.

• GHGs: Back to the future

  09 December 2013

  The winners in this year's rankings have triumphed in the face of adversity. They are now anxiously waiting for policymakers to make structural reforms to core markets, just as they were at the turn of the century. Graham Cooper reports

• Weather and Catastrophe Risk: The winds of change

  09 December 2013

  Winners in the weather risk market are increasingly seeing demand for risk protection broaden beyond the conventional energy market. Elza Holmstedt Pell reports

• Renewable Identification Numbers: A year of RINsanity

  09 December 2013

  The market for US biofuel credits has seen an unprecedented level of activity this year, but regulatory uncertainty makes the future of the market difficult to predict. Elza Holmstedt Pell reports

• Derisking renewables

  05 December 2013

  A cocktail of risks has hampered investment in low-carbon technologies. Public-backed guarantees, among others, should increasingly be used to help the capital flow, argues Gianleo Frisari

• People moves

  02 December 2013

  The latest people moves in the environmental markets, including appointments at Calvert Investments, CF Partners, Conergy, the Climate Bonds Initiative and more

• COP19: boon or bust?

  27 November 2013

  The UN climate talks in Warsaw kept a 2015 agreement within grasp – but offers little for investors, at least in the near-term, finds Katie Kouchakji

• Environmental investment opportunities in emerging markets

  26 November 2013

  There are compelling opportunities for the private sector to make profitable investments in the most energy inefficient area of the world, argues Dimitris Tsitsiragos

• COP Blog: WTF – Where's The Finance?

  21 November 2013

  The annual UN climate talks – known as the Conference of Parties, or COP – had been billed, all too optimistically, as a 'Finance COP'.

• COP Blog: Dealing with the drivers of deforestation

  20 November 2013

  Week two of the UNFCCC climate change negotiations always marks the incoming of high-level ministers. This year, they arrive (we hope) to take the necessary strategic decisions that will ultimately lead to a climate change agreement in Paris in 2015.