Analysis

• A climate change share price boost?

  01 May 2008

  Does 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

• The biofuels baby

  01 May 2008

  Eighteen 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.

• Another look at additionality

  01 May 2008

  Eron Bloomgarden and Mark Trexler argue for a top-down approach to assessing carbon offset project additionality

• EU allowance delays threaten 'cascade of defaults'

  01 May 2008

  An 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.

• Behind the numbers

  01 May 2008

  Statistics 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

• Cleaning up the energy sector

  01 May 2008

  The 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

• Opening the books.

  01 May 2008

  Corporate responsibility reporting is getting deeper and broader – by and large. Paul Scott reviews trends in ­corporate disclosure

• Picking up speed

  01 May 2008

  Richard Boddington and Simon Luby examine how trends in wind farm financing have evolved as the market has entered the mainstream

• A shifting kaleidoscope

  01 April 2008

  The 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

• Reassessing risk

  01 April 2008

  On 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.