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A break in the clouds
01 June 2008Difficulties in the wider economy have not spread to the weather markets, which seem to have succeeded in attracting more end-user business, reports Christopher Cundy
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People moves this month
01 June 2008Renewable energy investor Good Energies has appointed GEORGE COELHO as a managing director and head of venture capital. He will also be responsible for the team looking at European investment in the solar sector.
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After Andrew and Katrina
01 June 2008It took Hurricane Andrew to create the catastrophe risk market, and Hurricane Katrina really to prove its worth. Not even the sub-prime crisis has blown it off its course, says Albert Selius
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Beating the credit crunch
01 June 2008Despite the credit crunch, clean-tech entrepreneurs can still raise money, says Alexander Munro – and here's how
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To the Equator and beyond
01 June 2008This month, and this issue of Environmental Finance, mark the fifth anniversary of the Equator Principles. Five years ago, 10 private sector banks came together to announce that they would voluntarily commit to applying these environmental and social principles to their project finance business.
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Five years around the Equator
01 June 2008In terms of their uptake, the Equator Principles have been a runaway success. But what effect have they actually had on how banks manage the social and environmental risks in project finance? Jess McCabe reports
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The disclosure challenge
01 June 2008It's all very well for banks to sign up to the Equator Principles – but how are stakeholders to assess their effectiveness? Esther Garcia consider how banks should report on their implementation
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The windfall profits debate
01 June 2008Daniel Chartier and Eric Holdsworth reject the argument that free allocation of emission allowances necessarily leads to windfall profits for utilities
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Environmental liabilities go to market
01 May 2008Greg Rogers considers how market-based valuation of environmental liabilities will begin to impact business mergers and acquisitions
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Building the investment case
01 May 2008A new report from IUCN and Shell calls for the creation of a 'biodiversity business facility' to help build a market – and the more active participation of the environmental finance community, says Francis Vorheis
- CBI optimistic of 'really quick uptake' for climate resilience taxonomy
- MSCI developing transition plan assessment product
- Abris rolls-out ESG methodology to 'squeeze out' higher valuations
- 'Water will be one of the biggest investment themes over the next decade'
- Robeco launches its first 'high income green bond strategy'
- CBI to launch climate resilience taxonomy this month
- Putting transition plans to the test: MSCI
- Inadequate credit market could worsen biodiversity loss, warns Grantham Institute
- Allianz GI's impact credit strategy raises €560m at first close
- Mirova closes first impact PE strategy at €211m