Analysis

  • How cellphones can help save the planet

    08 November 2010

    The lessons of the mobile phone revolution should be applied to the fight against climate change, according to the International Finance Corporation's new climate head. Mark Nicholls reports

  • Coming off the tracks?

    08 November 2010

    The collapse of comprehensive climate and energy legislation means that US utilities face what some are describing as a 'train wreck' of environmental regulation. Gloria Gonzalez reports on how they are investing amid uncertainty

  • Painting the bond market green

    08 November 2010

    The emerging environmental bond market is generating keen interest – but how can this interest be translated into issuance? Charlotte Dudley reports

  • Bracing for bubbles

    07 October 2010

    Environmental technologies and markets are perhaps uniquely vulnerable to asset bubbles. Sophia Tickell and Alexa Clay examine why – and suggest what policy-makers and investors can do to help

  • Putting a premium on education

    07 October 2010

    Europe's weather risk sector is growing in volume and sophistication, but awareness and understanding remain an ongoing challenge. Charlotte Dudley reports

  • Blazing a trail in China

    07 October 2010

    China Industrial Bank was the first Chinese bank to sign the Equator Principles. Two years on, Jess McCabe reports on how it is implementing the environmental and social standards

  • From promise to reality

    07 October 2010

    It's a safe bet that industrialised world exchequers aren't going to deliver $100 billion a year in climate finance to developing countries by 2020. So where's the money going to come from? Michael Curley considers some options

  • India's take on trading

    07 October 2010

    India's imminent energy efficiency trading scheme offers a pragmatic approach to cutting carbon – and might be linked to international carbon markets. Matthew Gray and Shikha Bhasin explain

  • Chinese finance on the march

    06 October 2010

    Fresh from two trips to China to meet banks, insurers, regulators and policy-makers, UNEP Finance Initiative head Paul Clements-Hunt talks about his impressions as the country's finance sector marches towards sustainability

  • States must, again, drive US climate action

    06 October 2010

    The lack of federal action on climate change means that the effort must come, once more, from the states. Shanna Brownstein examines the tools they are already putting to work