News

• Cutting Europe's €320m nitrogen pollution bill will benefit climate

  14 April 2011

  A greater focus on the effects of nitrogen emissions could spur technologies that combat climate change, according to the author of report which estimates nitrogen pollution costs Europe as much as €320 million ($463 million) annually.

• BrightSource secures DOE loans, bags $168m from Google

  14 April 2011

  US-based BrightSource Energy has finalised $1.6 billion in US government loan guarantees and secured a $168 million funding injection from Google.

• EU states 'over-confident' on bioenergy assumptions, say paper companies

  13 April 2011

  Assumptions about the amount of energy that EU member states could obtain from forest biomass are overly optimistic, says the Confederation of Paper Industries (CEPI).

• On offshore wind, US developers look to Europe

  13 April 2011

  US offshore wind developers and potential investors can learn a lot about financing these projects from their European counterparts, wind experts said.

• Tax break for US wind power to survive – but not cash grants

  12 April 2011

  Wind energy advocates in the US are confident that the country's production tax credit (PTC) will be extended beyond its 2012 scheduled expiration, but they are pessimistic about the prospects for the cash grant programme.

• F&C appointed to run NEST ethical fund

  12 April 2011

  The UK's recently launched national pension scheme, the National Employment Savings Trust (NEST), has appointed F&C Asset Management to manage its ethical fund.

• EPA's budget, Senate reprieve seen as temporary

  11 April 2011

  Environmental activists are cheering the second narrow escape for US federal efforts to tackle climate change in one week – but warn that the assault from Republicans is far from over.

• Debt flows to US's beleaguered wind sector

  11 April 2011

  The debt market has fully recovered from the economic recession and is welcoming wind energy projects with open arms, but the tax equity market still has a long way to go to regain lost ground, wind energy experts said.

• Ecosystem trading firm wins Shell backing

  07 April 2011

  Ecosystem markets company Environment Bank has won funding from the Shell Foundation to establish habitat banking projects in south-east England and a trading system – ahead of the possible introduction of ecosystem banking legislation in the UK.

• FTSE lifts lid on ESG data for 2,400 companies

  07 April 2011

  FTSE Group has unveiled environmental, social and governance (ESG) ratings for almost 2,400 companies worldwide – allowing clients to access and manipulate "granular data" covering six ESG themes.