Analysis

• Five years around the Equator

  01 June 2008

  In terms of their uptake, the Equator Principles have been a runaway success. But what effect have they actually had on how banks manage the social and environmental risks in project finance? Jess McCabe reports

• The disclosure challenge

  01 June 2008

  It's all very well for banks to sign up to the Equator Principles – but how are stakeholders to assess their effectiveness? Esther Garcia consider how banks should report on their implementation

• The windfall profits debate

  01 June 2008

  Daniel Chartier and Eric Holdsworth reject the argument that free allocation of emission allowances necessarily leads to windfall profits for utilities

• Environmental liabilities go to market

  01 May 2008

  Greg Rogers considers how market-based valuation of environmental liabilities will begin to impact business mergers and acquisitions

• Building the investment case

  01 May 2008

  A new report from IUCN and Shell calls for the creation of a 'biodiversity business facility' to help build a market – and the more active participation of the environmental finance community, says Francis Vorheis

• 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