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EU's energy commissioner calls for €12-plus carbon price
17 May 2012Günther Oettinger, the EU's energy commissioner, yesterday said he would like to see a minimum carbon price of €12 ($15.21).
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Securitisation set to unlock new US solar markets
17 May 2012Solar experts say securitisation is set to become an important financing mechanism in their sector, but several hurdles must be overcome, including the perceptions of the rating agencies.
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BlackRock eyes first close for renewables fund
17 May 2012The renewable energy infrastructure fund launched by BlackRock last year is approaching a first close at $400 million, Environmental Finance understands.
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Shah warns of 'chaos' over tax equity investment in renewables
16 May 2012A colossal fight is brewing between renewable energy technologies for limited tax equity financing, according to Jigar Shah, president of the Washington, DC-based Coalition for Affordable Solar Energy (CASE) and founder of SunEdison.
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Impax eyeing agriculture and food investment themes
16 May 2012Environmental investment specialist Impax Asset Management plans to launch agriculture and food strategies or funds, as it seeks to exploit growing interest among investors in the 'resource scarcity' theme.
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ADB raises $339m in second clean energy bond issue
16 May 2012The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has raised the equivalent of $339 million from its second sale of clean energy bonds, the proceeds of which will be directed to renewable energy and energy efficiency projects.
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Rio+20 talks 'very helpful' for UN climate talks – Figueres
15 May 2012Sustainable development talks at next month's Rio+20 summit are set to be "very helpful" for the UN climate change negotiations, said Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
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Solar industry sees Romney threat to key tax break
15 May 2012The US investment tax credit (ITC) for solar energy could be in danger of being repealed under a Mitt Romney administration, experts said.
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New Jersey solar REC market set to dim further
15 May 2012Solar experts see no end in sight for the oversupply of solar power that has caused a pricing collapse in the New Jersey solar renewable energy credit (SREC) market, barring a much-discussed legislative fix that has yet to come to pass.
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Protocol for community-scale GHG emissions launched
15 May 2012A protocol to measure greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at the community level has been released in an effort to establish a single standard for measuring emissions from cities
- Iceberg launches sovereign climate and biodiversity dataset
- COP29: 'Historic step' for carbon markets, as Article 6 crosses finish line
- SLBs linked to donations or carbon credit investments are 'promising'
- EU proposal to bring sustainable finance rules into single regulation risks 'chaos'
- SEC likely to withdraw climate rules, former Commissioner predicts
- IDB Invest and IFC back BBVA Colombia for $100m sustainable bond issuance
- The 'finance COP' short-changed the Global South, say investors
- COP29: Financing Net Zero
- EU sustainability 'omnibus' regulations 'like a bad omelette'
- UK pledges £239m to tackle deforestation