Analysis

• The Rio grandee

  01 October 2007

  In 10 years EcoSecurities has grown from a two-man band in the Malaysian rainforest to one of the world's largest carbon traders. Mark Nicholls talks to co-founder Pedro Moura Costa

• The carbon quandary

  01 October 2007

  Investors and company executives alike see merit in increasing transparency on corporate greenhouse gas emissions. But, in the absence of regulation or standards, disclosure can raise as many questions as it answers. Elisabeth Jeffries reports

• Can solar deliver?

  01 October 2007

  Investors are heavily backing solar photovoltaics as the clean energy technology of choice. But, argues Roger Franklin, they are backing the wrong horse

• Power to the people

  01 September 2007

  The growing enthusiasm for biofuels touches many of the world's high-profile issues: energy, the environment, food supply, trade and a large dose of international politics. Vic Wyman reports

• Fuel cell inside

  01 September 2007

  With the much-vaunted hydrogen economy still on the distant horizon, the fuel cell sector has fallen out of favour with environmental investors. But Ceres Power is offering a different fuel cell play. Elisabeth Jeffries reports

• Rethinking risk

  01 September 2007

  As this issue of Environmental Finance went to press on 21 August, the world's investors seemed to be holding their breath. The US Fed's move at the end of the previous week, cutting its discount rate by 0.5 percentage points, had, for the time being at least, put the brakes on stock market slides. But, with continuing anxiety in the credit markets, the consensus is that more volatility is around the corner.

• 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