Analysis

• When is a REC not an offset?

  01 February 2009

  Renewable energy certificates (RECs, green tags or green certificates) represent the quantified non-emissions of a clean form of energy – as measured by how many tonnes of a regulated pollutant would have been emitted in creating that energy from a non-clean form. Those non-emissions are called 'environmental attributes'.

• A sustainable reinvention

  01 February 2009

  The financial sector needs to reinvent itself in the aftermath of the credit crunch. Sustainable investment should be central to that reinvention, say Cary Krosinsky and Nick Robins

• Offsets and Olympics

  01 February 2009

  British Columbia is blazing a trail with its government's pledge to go carbon neutral, and in the development of carbon offset standards. Barbara Hendrickson, Marty Venalainen and Rosanne Van Schie explain

• Australia's countdown begins

  01 February 2009

  Australia's introduction of an emissions trading scheme will transform the operating environment for thousands of the country's organisations. Andrew Petersen considers the implications

• The other credit crunch

  01 February 2009

  The Kyoto Protocol and the EU Emissions Trading Scheme have created a global industry creating and trading carbon credits. But the industry faces upheavals that promise to profoundly redraw it, say David Hampton and Will Lynn

• Going local

  01 February 2009

  The big utilities are beginning to grasp the potential of decentralised energy technologies – promising huge opportunities for investors. Cian McLeavey-Reville and David Morgado consider the prospects for the market, focusing on micro-CHP and energy storage

• Bubbles and busts

  01 February 2009

  Ten years of managing environmental technology funds means that Bruce Jenkyn-Jones is no stranger to a deflating bubble. But he remains medium-term bullish, he tells Mark Nicholls

• Cutting the wrong costs

  01 December 2008

  So much for all the whistling in the dark. Those optimists who had been persuading themselves that, this time, it was going to be different – that, this time, the environment wouldn't be one of the first victims of recession – are gradually being disabused.

• People moves this month

  01 December 2008

  Comings and goings in Environmental Finance this month

• Obituary

  01 December 2008

  Joan Bavaria, a pioneer of social investing, passed away on 18 November after a long battle with cancer.