Market insight

• Nephila: eyeing new markets, new models

  Nephila Capital is raising new capital as it eyes weather hedging opportunities in renewable energy and disruption in cat risk insurance underwriting. Barney Schauble talks to Environmental Finance

• Tracing the Origin of Power

  For a growing number of companies, electricity is a prime resource in the value chain. Being able to trace the origin of power has never been more important...

• Winds of change blow through cat risk markets

  Growing investor demand for catastrophe exposure is helping the insurance sector change how it manages natural disaster risk, Barney Schauble of Nephila Advisors tells Environmental Finance

• Letters from Lima

  The UN climate conference in Lima was billed as a key event in the build-up to a global agreement in Paris in 2015. This series of articles looks at some of the major topics covered.

• 15th Annual Market Rankings: A survivors' market

  After some tough years in the traded environmental markets, the survivors have weathered the storm and see better times ahead

• Carbon offsetters look beyond climate change

  Today's voluntary carbon market is about delivering far more than a climate change benefit – presenting enormous opportunity for...

• Carbon Divestment: The SRI Dilemma

  Miguel Santisteve, Associate Director at NASDAQ OMX Corporate Solutions, asks how investors are responding to the risk of stranded assets in their portfolio

• Capturing co-benefits

  Corporate offset buyers increasingly want to create – and measure – sustainable development benefits in addition to carbon reductions.

• Building a green energy infrastructure in sub-Saharan Africa

  Geoff Sinclair and Fenella Aouane review the fast growing renewable energy market in Africa and the financing opportunities it presents

• Shining a spotlight on climate risk

  With climate risk rising fast up the investment agenda, knowledge is power – and a new online tool on yourSRI provides investors the knowledge they need to begin addressing climate exposures. Environmental Finance talks to South Pole Carbon's Maximilian Horster