Analysis

• From the bottom up

  01 July 2008

  Emerging markets and microfinance were the winners in this year's Sustainable Banking awards, reports Jess McCabe

• People moves this month

  01 July 2008

  Hermes Real Estate has appointed TATIANA BOSTEELS as head of responsible property investment. She will report to director KEITH BUGDEN. Bosteels joins Hermes from the London Climate Change Agency, where she was climate change manager, developing and implementing policies through public–private vehicles. She also ran a climate change consultancy business for three years and is a director of Climate Change Solutions, a not-for-profit company that aims to promote policy and technological solutions to climate change challenges.

• Harnessing the power of finance

  01 June 2008

  The Equator Principles have helped transform risk management in project finance. But, says Lars Thunell, their implementation and evolution continue to pose challenges, as well as present opportunities

• It's an ill wind

  01 June 2008

  It's one thing to realise that weather can move commodity markets or maul company revenues – it's another thing to profit from it. Mark Nicholls talks to Peter Brewer, the hedge fund manager who does

• Governors on the march

  01 June 2008

  As US federal legislators plan long-anticipated climate change legislation, they would do well to look to the practical progress made by state governors, say Michael Northrop, David Sassoon and Ken Colburn

• 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.