Analysis

• Australia's clean energy future

  20 December 2011

  Frank Jotzo analyses Australia's package of climate legislation – which puts this erstwhile carbon laggard at the forefront of efforts to tackle global warming

• Shifting the burden from goods to bads

  20 December 2011

  It is Australia's move to price carbon, ultimately through a cap-and-trade scheme, that has generated most attention – and controversy. But carbon pricing is just one element of an ambitious reorientation of the tax and benefits system to penalise pollution and reward work, says Australia's climate change minister, Greg Combet

• A balancing act

  20 December 2011

  California's ambitious renewables and carbon targets are set to revolutionise its electricity system, with Cal ISO at its centre. Its CEO Stephen Berberich talks to Felicity Carus

• Finding fault with fracking

  20 December 2011

  Investors are piling into a US natural gas boom built on 'fracking'. But with an uncertain regulatory climate, they would be well advised to keep an eye on potential environmental liabilities, says Tom Mounteer

• The smart grid investment opportunity

  20 December 2011

  The roll-out of Europe's smart grid and smart metering will create enormous demand for capital – and a substantial investment opportunity, says Hans Meissner

• A degree of change

  16 December 2011

  The weather market hasn't escaped the effects of the drop in risk appetite in commodity markets more broadly – but end-user business remains solid and new opportunities, such as in renewable energy, are keeping participants busy. Mark Nicholls reports

• The rough with the smooth

  16 December 2011

  It's been a dire year for EU emissions trading and the Clean Development Mechanism – but things look brighter in California and Australia. Christopher Cundy reports

• Clouds on the horizon

  16 December 2011

  While the US has largely avoided the financing freeze afflicting the European renewables market in recent months, financiers are nervous about what 2012 might hold. Mark Nicholls reports

• Withholding judgement

  16 December 2011

  Not for the first time, traders and emitters in the US environmental markets are anxiously awaiting possible judicial intervention – this time, in the EPA's newly minted CSAPR markets. Gloria Gonzalez reports

• EDITORIAL: A deal in Durban

  13 December 2011

  Mark Nicholls on what the 'breakthrough' at the UN climate talks really means