Analysis

• The Shaw line

  01 September 2008

  As founder of EEA Fund Management, Simon Shaw has led some of the most successful investments in environmental and carbon markets. He tells Christopher Cundy how he did it

• Meeting the measurement challenge

  01 September 2008

  For too long, asset owners have had few means of assessing the real environmental, social and governance skills of their asset managers. Jonathan Horton explains how a new benchmark can help both sides measure and manage ESG issues

• The environment on the stump

  01 September 2008

  Eight years of federal foot-dragging on climate change are set to be reversed come January – whichever candidate wins the keys to the White House. But, as Gloria Gonzalez reports, the apparent similarities of the two presidential candidates' energy and climate policies mask profound differences

• The path to optimisation

  01 September 2008

  Andreas Wiese explains how to analyse the risk and ensure the financial optimisation of portfolios of renewable energy projects

• People moves this month

  01 September 2008

  JON WILLIAMS, head of group sustainable development at HSBC, is to leave the banking giant to take up a new role as partner, sustainability and climate change, at Pricewaterhouse­Coopers in London.

• Less than zero

  01 July 2008

  Barely a week goes past without another company claiming some kind of carbon neutrality. But do the claims stack up? Iain Watt and Bill Burtis attempt to make the sums work

• A spark in the tank?

  01 July 2008

  High oil prices and climate change concerns are turning up the voltage on the electric car industry. Alexandra Cran-McGreehin reports on where investors see the most promising opportunities

• Made in China

  01 July 2008

  There is no doubt: China's wind energy market will be massive. But what role will foreign developers, turbine makers and investors play? Joshua Speckman reports

• In the eye of the beholder

  01 July 2008

  Another summer, another G8 summit. This one, on the Japanese island of Hokkaido, apparently cost its hosts $590 million to stage, and goodness knows how much to convene the usual travelling circus of politicians, diplomats and journalists.

• An allowance to take to the bank

  01 July 2008

  Congress should look to carbon allowance property rights when it revisits the Lieberman-Warner bill – or risk hitting the liquidity of the carbon market, say Patrick Traylor and James Morin