News

• Rio+20 should refine integrated reporting proposal – investors

  07 March 2012

  Investors have welcomed a proposal to make companies report on their environmental and social impacts, to be discussed at the Rio+20 sustainable development summit in June, but say it could be improved in several ways.

• Private equity fundraising at risk over ESG 'expectations gap'

  07 March 2012

  Private equity firms that fail to develop and communicate environmental, social and governance (ESG) policies are likely to find it increasingly hard to raise funds from investors, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers.

• German solar subsidy cuts postponed

  06 March 2012

  The solar subsidy cuts proposed by the German government will be not come into force before 1 April, according to a government spokesman.

• Long road ahead seen to repair EU ETS

  06 March 2012

  A key European Parliamentary committee has voted in favour of measures to address the chronic oversupply of allowances in the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS).

• US biofuels rules could lead to surging imports

  06 March 2012

  US rules on ethanol usage will favour Brazilian cane sugar producers and could lead to a surge in imports in the coming years, according to a research note from Rabobank International.

• Bingaman introduces doomed clean energy bill, again

  05 March 2012

  A bill establishing a national clean energy standard (CES) has again been introduced in the US Senate, but its prospects are dim in an election year.

• Wheb takes aim at Henderson, Aviva assets as it swoops on team

  05 March 2012

  Wheb Group has hired the majority of Henderson Global Investors' sustainable and responsible investment (SRI) team, in a move aimed at disgruntled SRI investors.

• Voting open in the Environmental Finance Voluntary Carbon Market Survey

  05 March 2012

  Environmental Finance is conducting its annual survey of the voluntary carbon markets, polling its readers on the leading project developers, traders, brokers, advisors, verifiers and other service providers active in these markets.

• US observers predict partial EPA victory on greenhouse gas rulings

  05 March 2012

  The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is likely to prevail in the court battle over its determination that greenhouse gases (GHGs) endanger public health and welfare, and its rules covering GHG emissions from cars, experts said. But the agency could be forced to revisit a rule that restricts its current GHG regulations of stationary sources to large emitters.

• Allianz boosts weather risk capability

  05 March 2012

  German insurance giant Allianz has hired a leading weather risk originator with a view to increasing its underwriting of weather exposures.