Analysis

• A break in the clouds

  01 June 2008

  Difficulties 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

• People moves this month

  01 June 2008

  Renewable 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.

• After Andrew and Katrina

  01 June 2008

  It 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

• Beating the credit crunch

  01 June 2008

  Despite the credit crunch, clean-tech entrepreneurs can still raise money, says Alexander Munro – and here's how

• To the Equator and beyond

  01 June 2008

  This 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.

• Five years around the Equator

  01 June 2008

  In 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

• The disclosure challenge

  01 June 2008

  It'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

• The windfall profits debate

  01 June 2008

  Daniel Chartier and Eric Holdsworth reject the argument that free allocation of emission allowances necessarily leads to windfall profits for utilities

• Environmental liabilities go to market

  01 May 2008

  Greg Rogers considers how market-based valuation of environmental liabilities will begin to impact business mergers and acquisitions

• Building the investment case

  01 May 2008

  A 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