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A climate change share price boost?
01 May 2008Does making a commitment to tackling carbon emissions translate into a share-price premium? Paul Bowden and Stefan Altenschmidt explain a new index that attempts to find out
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The biofuels baby
01 May 2008Eighteen months ago, they were expected to save the planet. Now, they are going to starve it to death. The crescendo of criticism that biofuels have come in for in recent months has become deafening.
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Another look at additionality
01 May 2008Eron Bloomgarden and Mark Trexler argue for a top-down approach to assessing carbon offset project additionality
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EU allowance delays threaten 'cascade of defaults'
01 May 2008An ongoing delay in the issuance of EU allowances (EUAs) to emitters in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) could lead to "mass-scale default" in the EU emissions market, market participants have warned.
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Behind the numbers
01 May 2008Statistics can obscure as much as they illuminate. Ivo Knoepfel and Gordon Hagart caution that the rash of numbers showing the growth of socially responsible and sustainable investments should be treated with caution
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Cleaning up the energy sector
01 May 2008The credit crisis, likely carbon caps and a new president will all impact on the US renewables market. But, as Michael Eckhart tells Christopher Cundy, the industry's future remains very bright
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Opening the books.
01 May 2008Corporate responsibility reporting is getting deeper and broader – by and large. Paul Scott reviews trends in corporate disclosure
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Picking up speed
01 May 2008Richard Boddington and Simon Luby examine how trends in wind farm financing have evolved as the market has entered the mainstream
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A shifting kaleidoscope
01 April 2008The global biofuels industry is realigning, says Ben Warren, as sustainability concerns, shifting support schemes, and changing agricultural markets exert differing pressures across the value chain
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Reassessing risk
01 April 2008On the face of it, Bear Stearns' collapse does not appear to have a great deal to do with climate change. The venerable Wall Street institution was brought to its knees by the investment banking equivalent of an old-fashioned run on its assets, by investors and counterparties who had no confidence that the bank could make good on its commitments.
- 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