Analysis

• 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.

• An enterprise-wide approach

  01 April 2008

  The emergence of the derivatives business forced banks to take a new approach to risk management. It is time to apply those lessons to carbon, says Ron Dembo

• Changing the financing climate

  01 April 2008

  The European Investment Bank's lending policy has changed radically to meet the challenge of global warming, Christopher Cundy reports

• Back to the drawing board

  01 April 2008

  Allison Wood unpicks the US Court of Appeals ruling that gutted the EPA's mercury trading proposals – and suggests the story doesn't end here

• Can carbon make nuclear pay?

  01 April 2008

  The US nuclear industry is hopeful that the introduction of carbon trading will help finance a new generation of nuclear power plants. But the European experience may give them pause. Jess McCabe reports

• Coming into its own

  01 April 2008

  Concerns over energy security and climate change are persuading politicians that nuclear power has a vital role to play in the electricity supply mix of the future, says Ian Hore-Lacy