Analysis

• Creating a competitive advantage

  26 February 2013

  When it comes to managing environmental, social and governance issues, the private equity industry is moving from 'why?' to 'how?', say Tom Murray and Lee Coker

• The resource efficiency opportunity

  26 February 2013

  Markets linked to resource efficiency are set to deliver strong growth and, if approached correctly, investment outperformance, says Ian Simm

• A natural capital roadmap

  21 February 2013

  Building on momentum created at the 'Rio+20' Earth Summit, 41 leaders in the financial sector are moving to mainstream natural capital integration in financial products and corporate accounting and reporting. Ivo Mulder, Andrew Mitchell and Peter Cruickshank explain

• Water investment: turning on the taps

  19 February 2013

  With the bill for providing water for a growing population set to rocket, how can the flow of finance into infrastructure schemes be unleashed? Genevieve Bennett reports.

• China's Green Credit Policy under scrutiny

  19 February 2013

  Beijing is trying to give teeth to its environmental policies by enlisting the help of the banking sector. Can it work? Rey Edward reports

• Germany lights the path on efficiency

  14 February 2013

  Germany's domestic energy efficiency programme has been praised as a blueprint for other countries to follow. Elza Holmstedt Pell investigates how its development bank is helping to keep the country's energy costs down

• Giving credit to water benefits

  12 February 2013

  A novel partnership is bringing lessons from the carbon markets to the challenge of financing water projects in developing countries. Sascha Lafeld and Jacob Bourgeois explain the Water Benefit Certificate initiative

• Learning the lessons of nuclear power

  07 February 2013

  Offshore wind developers tend to look to the experience of the oil and gas sector in developing large projects at sea. But, argue Michael Kruse and Julia Heizinger, the nuclear industry has some vital lessons to impart

• The PV market goes online

  07 February 2013

  As renewable energy markets mature, the need is growing for robust secondary markets for operational projects – creating an opening for online platforms, says Felix Krause

• People moves this month

  01 February 2013

  Comings and goings in Environmental Finance this month