Analysis

  • Temperatures rising

    17 December 2010

    The US administration is considering whether to drag China to the WTO over alleged clean-tech protectionism. But ensuring that China plays by the rules is only one part of the story, says Jake Colvin

  • Not punishment, but cure

    17 December 2010

    James Cameron from Climate Change Capital says pricing carbon is a vital part of the world's growth strategy – which makes regulatory attacks on the market so baffling

  • Trading truncated

    17 December 2010

    The regulatory omens don't look good for the major US emissions markets, and the economic downturn has dried up liquidity in the regional ones. Gloria Gonzalez reports on a gloomy year in SO2 and NOx

  • California dreaming

    17 December 2010

    Trading is under way in California's nascent carbon market – which could form a basis for EPA carbon regulation across the US, say Stephen MacKenzie and Thomas Cape

  • End of term

    18 November 2010

    The US mid-term elections have thrown US climate and energy policies into even more disarray than they were in before. Gloria Gonzalez asks what they mean for carbon trading, renewables and emissions regulation

  • International carbon markets 2010

    15 November 2010

    What effect will the Cancun climate talks have on the global markets? Download this special report from Environmental Finance. (Subscription required)

  • Lessons from Nagoya

    11 November 2010

    The biodiversity agreement in Nagoya is to be welcomed – but a dose of realism on financing is well overdue, says Mark Nicholls

  • Banking on biodiversity

    09 November 2010

    Biodiversity is low on the radar screen of financial institutions, or even non-existent. But, in the wake of the Nagoya Protocol, financiers are awakening to a world where environmental and social phenomena are increasingly becoming financially material, say Ivo Mulder and Jessica Boucher

  • Making timberland investment a safe bet

    09 November 2010

    Valuing timberland is a complex business and, with new environmental revenue streams, becoming more so. Steve Palmer explains how sophisticated software is coming to the rescue

  • Scarce, and getting scarcer

    09 November 2010

    Could the looming scarcity of so-called rare metals put the brakes on the clean energy revolution – or generate new opportunities for recyclers? Lydia Heida reports