Analysis

• Solving the permanence conundrum

  04 February 2011

  Effective and affordable risk management is vital to unlock investment into forest carbon, say Eron Bloomgarden and Claire Jahns

• Time to send offsetting into retirement?

  24 January 2011

  Carbon offsetting has received a mixed press in recent years – but switching from carbon credits to allowances could help restore its credibility, argues Jane Burston

• California puts the brakes on emissions

  19 January 2011

  The same elections that knocked carbon trading off the US federal agenda gave the green light to a comprehensive carbon cap-and-trade programme in California. Gloria Gonzalez reports

• Forging a new path

  14 January 2011

  South Korea is investing billions of dollars in an effort to reorientate its economy towards "green growth". Joshua Speckman reports on an experiment without precedent

• Steady as she goes

  17 December 2010

  Weather risk dealers report a steady, if unspectacular, year in the market, while the catastrophe risk market has been buoyed by growing bond issuance. Charlotte Dudley reports

• The finance starts to flow

  17 December 2010

  Policy uncertainty has sent a chill through renewable energy markets in 2010, but financing, at least, is starting to thaw. Jess McCabe reports

• Europe gets smart about metering

  17 December 2010

  The roll-out of smart meters across Europe will become one of the largest and most complex investment programmes ever undertaken in the energy sector. Ronald Hendrikx considers what is at stake

• Canada on the cusp

  17 December 2010

  Canada has been overlooked by environmental investors but, say Martin Grosskopf and Rachel Davies, its improving policy environment and healthy, resource-based economic fundamentals are positioning it to deliver the next spurt of clean-tech growth

• Making the case for clean energy

  17 December 2010

  The renewable energy sector has been under particular attack of late, with sceptics taking potshots at its viability and environmental effectiveness. But many of these attacks are flawed or unfounded, say Gabriel Miller, Camilla Sharples and Paul Ho

• Stuck on REDD

  17 December 2010

  Investment is urgently needed to save the world's tropical forests, but efforts of investors such as Hylton Murray-Philipson have been hobbled by slow progress towards an international 'REDD' framework. He talks to Mark Nicholls