Analysis

• Keeping to contracts

  06 October 2010

  What is it that environmental policy-makers don't understand about sticking to contracts, asks Mark Nicholls

• Riding a policy rollercoaster

  06 October 2010

  Australia's off-again, on-again federal carbon policy may be difficult to follow, but local and corporate initiatives are steadily bubbling up. Jennifer Lauber Patterson surveys the landscape

• The end of the China Development Mechanism?

  06 October 2010

  China still dominates the Clean Development Mechanism – but its low-carbon growth strategy is moving away from the international carbon market and towards domestic carbon pricing. Joshua Speckman reports

• Looking beyond 2012

  06 October 2010

  With aggressive targets and a range of emissions trading initiatives under way, Japan is preparing to step up its efforts to tackle climate change. But its international role is changing, says Yukimi Shimura

• Taking sustainability into account

  06 October 2010

  Malcolm Preston, global head of sustainability at PwC, says investment throughout the recent recession is paying dividends. He talks to Mark Nicholls

• Some IPOs should be too hot to handle

  05 October 2010

  The planned listing of Coal India is the latest example of how capital markets are failing to price – or even consider – climate change risk, says Mark Campanale

• Spain, Basel cast pall over renewables financers

  23 September 2010

  The renewable energy sector may have passed last year's nadir, but finance is far from flowing. Mark Nicholls reports

• Confronting climate risk

  20 September 2010

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• What comes next?

  06 September 2010

  With the Democrats' climate and energy strategy in disarray, industry, investors and environmental groups alike are all asking what comes next. Gloria Gonzalez reports

• Liquidity squeeze

  06 September 2010

  The finance sector's lending to and investment in the power sector is vulnerable to growing water scarcity – requiring a better handle on water risk management. Ivo Mulder and Margot Hill explain