Analysis

• Solar firms pull together to facilitate finance

  04 April 2013

  Markets thrive on standardisation – and a new initiative from the US solar sector to come to a common view on risk aims to unlock new financial products. Gloria Gonzalez reports

• Unlocking the energy efficiency opportunity

  04 April 2013

  Making buildings, transport and industrial operations more energy efficient will play a key role in limiting climate change – yet progress has proved slow. Elza Holmstedt Pell reports

• Anglo: engaging with climate policy

  04 April 2013

  Climate change is already a reality for miner Anglo American – which makes its engagement with the climate policy process all the more important, says Sam Hoe-Richardson

• Attracting low-cost capital to clean energy

  03 April 2013

  Michael Eckhart introduces a proposal for a new public-private partnership – the Sustainable Development Bond Assurance Corporation – that could provide risk insurance to support the issuance of bonds to finance clean energy projects around the world

• Animal welfare raises ESG issues

  02 April 2013

  Rory Sullivan and Nicky Amos consider the lessons that a recent benchmarking of farm animal welfare standards can teach responsible investors

• New York's green banker

  02 April 2013

  Richard Kauffman has come to New York State to build a $1 billion green bank, transform its energy system, and create a bunch of green jobs. In his first interview as New York's energy tsar, he talks to Mark Nicholls

• The green bond market comes of age

  02 April 2013

  The first $1 billion environmental bond has opened the market up to a new class of investor – but the search for yield goes on. Mark Nicholls reports

• Asia's sustainability challenge

  26 March 2013

  Asia's breakneck growth has often been at the expense of the environment and social cohesion. Reform of the region's financial services sector must be at the heart of efforts to make that growth genuinely sustainable, says Jessica Robinson

• Wind energy investors look east

  26 March 2013

  Investor confidence in eastern European wind power projects has been hit by policy uncertainty, but there are still attractive opportunities in parts of the region, where wind power capacity is set to soar. Elza Holmstedt Pell reports

• State Street bets on green bonds

  21 March 2013

  State Street's Chris McKnett talks to Gloria Gonzalez about how the giant asset manager sees growing interest in fixed-income ESG strategies