Analysis

• Making quality count?

  01 July 2009

  With raw material costs plummeting and competition hotting up from low-cost Chinese producers, Q-Cells is hoping its customers will pay for quality. Greg Bousfield reports

• Feeding a warming world

  01 July 2009

  The agricultural sector faces massive growth in demand for its products – in the teeth of significant impacts from climate change. However, the challenges present significant investment opportunities, say Bruce Kahn and David Zaks

• Keeping a lid on costs

  01 July 2009

  The offset provisions of the Waxman-Markey climate and energy bill provide a crucial means to lower its costs – but the Senate would do well to improve upon them, says Lisa Jacobson

• Time to take risk

  01 July 2009

  Forget the recession – this is exactly the time that venture capitalists should be taking risks, especially in clean-tech, says sector exemplar Ira Ehrenpreis. He talks to Gloria Gonzalez

• A different kind of downturn?

  01 June 2009

  It might seem an odd place to look. But for evidence that environmental issues are, finally, becoming squarely incorporated into the corporate mainstream, one could do worse than examine the banking sector.

• People moves this month

  01 June 2009

  Comings and goings in Environmental Finance this month

• Built for success

  01 June 2009

  Fred Krupp of the Environmental Defense Fund explains why the NGO is backing Waxman-Markey to cap US greenhouse gas emissions

• Back to business as usual?

  01 June 2009

  The financial crisis has transformed the banking landscape. But where has it left the pursuit of 'sustainable banking'? Jess McCabe reports

• Competitive markets

  01 June 2009

  Despite the credit crunch, activity on carbon exchanges is heating up – as is competition between them. Christopher Cundy reports

• Chicago and New York go head to head

  01 June 2009

  The Chicago Climate Futures Exchange (CCFE) is emerging as the trading platform of choice for the US carbon market as the federal government presses forward with the potential adoption of a federal cap-and-trade system. The Green Exchange, led by the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) and brokerage Evolution