Analysis

• Water, water everywhere....

  01 July 2007

  With the UK having just endured the wettest June on record, concerns about the availability of water are not exactly at the forefront of peoples' minds here. But only last summer, the country was facing widespread water restrictions after the two driest winters for 40 years.

• Broadening the agenda

  01 July 2007

  Environmental due diligence isn't just about contaminated land and regulatory compliance any more – investors need to consider a much broader agenda of environmental risks, says Simon Pringle

• What the US?can learn from the CDM

  01 July 2007

  As US policy-makers, businesses and investors prepare for a federal US carbon market, they would do well to learn some of the lessons from the Clean Development Mechanism, says Patrick Traylor

• A scheme with legs

  01 July 2007

  The EU Emissions Trading Scheme needs longer-term horizons, says Patrick Nollet, and governments and industry should also recognise that it is operating as two markets in one – and give it the two legs that it needs

• Biofuels and the future

  01 July 2007

  In the space of 12 months, the biofuels industry has gone from climate saviour to environmental scapegoat. But it has a crucial – and sustainable – role to play in tackling climate change and energy insecurity, says Ron Oxburgh

• The unlikely revolutionary

  01 July 2007

  Ray Pospisil talks to GE's Kevin Walsh – the man responsible for building one of the world's largest ­renewable energy investment portfolios

• Between innovation and scale

  01 July 2007

  The water sector does not offer the paradigm-busting innovations beloved of venture capitalists, or the scale favoured by private equity investors. So new investment strategies are needed, says Christoph Lueneburger

• Turning on the taps

  01 July 2007

  Despite the size of the world's water sector – and the scale of its investment needs – opportunities for exposure to the industry have been limited. But, as Charlotte Steel reports, a flood of new water funds is coming to market

• Testing the limits of trade

  01 July 2007

  As climate change threatens to increase the variability and unpredictability of rainfall, Australia's experiences with water trading could be invaluable, says James Bentley

• Adding up the numbers

  01 June 2007

  Matthew Arnold considers how sustainable banking has moved from a sideshow, to a risk management issue, to a major business opportunity – and looks at how Citigroup came up with its $50 billiion pledge