Analysis

• A challenge to Congress

  01 September 2007

  The US Congress has the rare opportunity to integrate energy and environmental policy. Lisa Jacobson suggests how it should approach the climate change element

• A question of design

  01 September 2007

  While new emissions trading schemes are under consideration in Australasia and the US, the debate over their efficacy shows no sign of abating. Julian Turecek presents the case for the defence

• The green energy reckoning

  01 September 2007

  Andrew Nourafshan explains how the Green-e programme has tackled ­concerns over environmental integrity and ­double-counting in the US renewable energy ­certificate market – and how it is expanding into emissions

• Hanging in the balance?

  01 September 2007

  Progress towards the low-carbon economy has been impressive, but business needs the right signals from government – and they both need to work together, says Steve Howard

• Taking responsibility

  01 September 2007

  The first report on the implementation of the Principles for Responsible Investment reveals dramatic progress in some areas – but less in others. Mark Nicholls reports

• From the Street to the Hill

  01 September 2007

  What do you do after a stellar Wall Street career, if you're too young just to play golf? For Jon Anda, the answer is to join Environmental Defense and lobby Washington for an emissions market with teeth. He talks to Mark Nicholls

• The banks breeze in

  01 September 2007

  The dramatic growth in renewable energy generation is being increasingly financed by the capital markets. Jess McCabe reports on how investors and bankers are coming to love green energy

• Paying up to cut emissions

  01 July 2007

  Investment in funds that buy greenhouse gas emission credits is soaring. Christopher Cundy asks managers where the money is coming from – and where it's going

• Rocket to the moon?

  01 July 2007

  Carbon capture may be a shining hope for the low-carbon future. But opinion is divided on how best to incentivise ­industry to pilot it, or promote its widespread adoption. Jess McCabe reports

• Taking the long view

  01 July 2007

  Pumping carbon dioxide underground for long-term storage raises some unique liability exposures. Matt Elkington considers how they could be managed