Analysis

• Putting steel into the ground

  01 December 2007

  By the time this issue of Environmental Finance lands on our readers' desks, the UN climate talks in Bali will have concluded. It's impossible to predict what – if anything – substantive will emerge from the Indonesian island, after two weeks of negotiations, horse-trading, furious lobbying and, indeed, fairly furious reporting.

• Adding a dose of complexity

  01 December 2007

  Emissions trading systems are based on traditional economic theory – but the new discipline of 'complexity economics' raises profound questions over their role in tackling climate change, says Nick Silver

• Learning the lessons from the US credit crunch

  01 December 2007

  John Palmisano considers what lessons investors in green assets can learn from the collapse of the US housing market

• Breaking the green tax logjam

  01 December 2007

  New taxes may be political anathema, but a shift towards environmental taxation must be embraced if we're to ­tackle climate change, argues Paul Ekins

• Scaling up clean-tech

  01 December 2007

  As head of Citi's clean-tech private equity unit, Andrew de Pass has $2 billion of the bank's capital to invest. He tells Mark Nicholls how he plans to deploy it

• The ramifications of REACH

  01 December 2007

  The effects of the EU's new chemicals legislation will be felt more widely than many might expect. Francois Dauphin considers the compliance and investment challenge posed by Reach

• Investors question EU trading

  01 December 2007

  The European Commission is due in January to unveil ­proposals for 'burden-sharing' arrangements to meet its EU-wide renewable energy target. But the prospect that this may involve renewable energy trading is being met with caution by investors, as Kirsty Hamilton reports

• All at sea?

  01 December 2007

  The UK has the potential to become a world leader in the nascent wave and tidal power sectors – if the right support framework is put in place, says James Vaccaro

• Putting billions to work for wetlands

  01 December 2007

  A proposed new regulatory framework could turn wetland banking in the US into a multi-billion-dollar market. But might a gold rush undermine its environmental effectiveness? Alice Kenny reports

• What could go wrong?

  01 November 2007

  The nascent clean energy sector is booming. But is investor enthusiasm overdone? Morgan Stanley's David Edwards looks at the lessons to be learnt from the biotech and internet bubbles