Analysis

• Environmental Finance Awards 2011: Saluting the leaders

  26 July 2011

  Compared to the previous two years, we had a much healthier roster of transactions to assess for this year's awards issue – with the IPO market especially much more active than in the recent past.

• Putting principles into practice

  26 July 2011

  ING's Leonie Schreve explains how the Equator Principles are spreading throughout the Dutch bank

• Dan Adler: Cleaning up in California

  26 July 2011

  California's aggressive clean energy and carbon targets put it at the forefront of US efforts to tackle climate change – and Clean Energy Fund president Dan Adler is right in the middle of the action. He talks to Gloria Gonzalez

• Renewable Energy Deal of the Year

  26 July 2011

  WINNER: Caithness Shepherds Flat wind farm financing RUNNER UP: Eaga social housing solar financing

• IPO of the Year

  26 July 2011

  WINNER: Amyris RUNNER UP: Enel Green Power

• Sustainable Forestry Deal of the Year

  26 July 2011

  WINNER: The Kasigau Corridor REDD project

• Environmental Finance Personality of the Year

  26 July 2011

  WINNER: Christopher Flensborg

• Catastrophe Risk Deal of the Year

  26 July 2011

  WINNER: Clariden Leu's notional USA natural perils catastrophe derivative

• Carbon Finance Deal of the Year

  26 July 2011

  WINNER: Sindicatum Carbon Capital structured CER sale RUNNER UP: Parhelion EU ETS eligibility insurance

• Environmental Bond Issue of the Year

  26 July 2011

  WINNER: SunPower Andromeda Finance solar project bond