Analysis

• Tracking climate change

  01 March 2008

  Index designers are rushing to meet investor demand for global warming-themed investments, reports Jess McCabe

• Confidence in carbon

  01 March 2008

  Marco Monroy was entering into carbon contracts when others had given up on the Kyoto Protocol. He tells Mark Nicholls how MGM has evolved with the market

• Sending the right signals?

  01 March 2008

  The European Commission's energy and climate package has set the stage for massive growth in renewable energy. But, asks Coralie Laurencin, has it done enough to convince investors?

• Two years and counting

  01 February 2008

  The Bali climate negotiations set the clock ticking on two years of negotiations to craft a new international emissions regime. Mark Nicholls reports

• Europe's climate change vision

  01 February 2008

  On 23 January, the European Commission set out its vision for the EU's energy and climate policy to 2020 and beyond. The big picture numbers came as no surprise – a 20% cut in greenhouse gas emissions below 1990 levels by 2020, and 20% of the bloc's energy to come from renewables by the same date.

• Price is not enough

  01 February 2008

  Putting a price on carbon through the tax system is difficult, controversial and will only get us so far. A cap on greenhouse gas emissions is also needed, says Jonathan Lash

• Clicking past coal

  01 February 2008

  Google's charitable foundation aims to be as disruptive as its parent company. Trevor Curwin talks to Dan Reicher, its man charged with making renewables cheaper than coal

• Managing risk and adding value

  01 February 2008

  Environmental and social risk management in project finance, if done properly, can add value to project sponsors and financing institutions – as well as to the environment and local stakeholders, says Robert Montgomery

• Financing dangerous climate change

  01 February 2008

  Rainforest Action Network is calling for a moratorium on the financing of new coal-fired power plants. William Barclay and Rebecca Tarbotton explain why

• AIMing for growth in 2008?

  01 February 2008

  Can London's Alternative Investment Market defend its position as the exit of choice for clean-tech entrepreneurs in 2008? Saul Sender ­considers their options