Analysis

• Big pharma's biodiversity issue

  19 July 2011

  The reliance of the pharmaceutical industry on natural resources may be greater than it or investors are aware of, say Charlotte Linnebank and Annelisa Grigg

• Corporate governance for a carbon-constrained world

  12 July 2011

  Rory Sullivan examines what defines corporate leadership on climate change governance – and how investors should test corporate claims

• Finding a path to REDD investment

  05 July 2011

  How can finance be mobilised to protect the world's rainforests, in a climate of extreme policy uncertainty? Environmental Finance and Irbaris convened a panel of experts to try to find out. Mark Nicholls reports

• Shareholders fight back

  30 June 2011

  Shareholders unhappy with how companies are performing on natural gas fracking, energy and climate issues are making their voices heard at annual general meetings, says Mindy Lubber from investor coalition Ceres

• The real climate change investment story

  22 June 2011

  The recent survey of global investors' response to climate change was partial and misleading, says Julian Poulter

• The nature of the thing

  21 June 2011

  Failure to distinguish between environmental instruments and the cash-settled contracts based on them could impose crippling costs, warn Christopher Berendt and Jeremy Weinstein

• Broadsides from the back benches

  21 June 2011

  As chairman of an influential parliamentary committee, veteran Tory MP Tim Yeo has proved an effective critic of UK climate policy. He talks electricity market reform and emissions with Mark Nicholls

• Thinking globally, investing locally

  16 June 2011

  M&A in the renewables sector is hotting up – but investors are cautious, crave policy certainty and, to a large degree, are staying close to home, says KPMG's Andy Cox

• Taking the carbon markets to Africa

  14 June 2011

  There is no shortage of demand for African carbon credits – but drumming up supply remains challenging. Mark Nicholls reports on efforts to bring carbon finance to the continent

• Carbon trading – but not as you know it

  10 June 2011

  With climate negotiations moving at glacial speed in Bonn, HSBC's Zoe Knight, Nick Robins and D. Saravanan look at how the evolution of the global economy is making traditional ways of regulating carbon increasingly anachronistic, requiring new thinking from policymakers to strike a global deal.