Analysis

  • 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.

  • 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