Analysis

  • Putting principles first

    01 December 2008

    Market turmoil comes and goes – but tackling climate change will be an integral part of doing business for decades to come. Yulanda Chung explains why Standard Chartered put its name to the Climate Principles

  • After the inauguration

    01 December 2008

    The speculation is intense, the facts limited. But, as key appointments emerge, Gloria Gonzalez reports on the politics and personalities that may shape the Obama administration's environmental record

  • A chill wind blowing

    01 December 2008

    The renewable energy sector was late to feel the cold hand of the credit crisis – but financiers and REC traders are braced for a chillier 2009. Jess McCabe talks to the renewable energy winners of Environmental Finance's Market Survey

  • Waiting on the judges

    01 December 2008

    The striking down of the Clean Air Interstate Rule has thrown the US emissions markets into confusion. Gloria Gonzalez finds the winners of Environmental Finance's market survey anxiously awaiting resolution

  • Shelter from the storm

    01 December 2008

    The financial crisis has seen some speculative money leaving the weather market. But plenty of end-user deals are still being done, reports Christopher Cundy

  • Shifting gears

    01 December 2008

    Even before the credit crunch, the amount of financing directed towards addressing climate change was woefully inadequate. Armin Sandhoevel and Katharina Latif consider what needs to happen for investments to step up a gear

  • Keeping the love affair sweet

    01 December 2008

    Economists and environmentalists have become increasingly frequent bed-fellows, as the world turns to markets to address environmental challenges. But, as David Runnalls argues, both parties need to work at the relationship

  • Designing it right

    01 December 2008

    Joe Nation, co-author of California's landmark global warming legislation, and Roger Noll give their advice to the state's regulators as they grapple with crucial elements of the emissions trading scheme's design

  • Setting the pace

    01 December 2008

    When it comes to environmental and social governance, where the International Finance Corporation leads, the private sector often follows. Jess McCabe talks to its new head of social and environmental development, Greg Radford

  • The weight of expectation

    01 November 2008

    Whichever way the US election went, one outcome was guaranteed: it marked the end of the Bush administration, and the end of eight years of denial, obfuscation, inaction and obstruction when it came to the greatest challenge of our generation – perhaps of any generation – tackling climate change.