News

• CDP investors' demands shift from disclosure to mitigation

  06 April 2011

  A 'vanguard' group of Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) signatories managing $7.6 trillion of assets have called on the world's largest companies to implement "cost-effective" greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions.

• US officials vent over lack of clean-tech policy certainty

  05 April 2011

  US government officials working to facilitate investment in the clean-tech sector say they are just as frustrated with the lack of federal policy certainty as private investors.

• Fukushima disaster poses hard questions on climate targets

  04 April 2011

  Climate targets will be harder to meet and ambitious nuclear building programmes around the world will become more expensive, commentators said, in the aftermath of the suspected Fukushima meltdown.

• UK urged to convert nuclear stockpile into economic opportunity

  31 March 2011

  The UK should turn its stockpiles of spent nuclear fuel into a £10 billion ($16 billion) economic opportunity, according to a report from the Smith School of Enterprise and Environment.

• Invest before lights turned out on US renewables subsidies – BNEF

  31 March 2011

  Renewable energy financing will continue to recover this year, but project developers should take advantage of incentives offered by the US federal government while they still can, according to a Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) analyst.

• Investors give thumbs up for NEST ESG commitment

  31 March 2011

  The UK's national pension scheme is to integrate environmental, social and governance (ESG) analysis across all its asset classes, and has signed up to the UN-backed Principles of Responsible Investment (PRI), winning plaudits from sustainable investment groups.

• US clean-tech finance boutique expands into Europe

  31 March 2011

  Greentech Capital Advisors has opened a European office and announced the hire of a senior executive from nuclear power firm Areva.

• Nuclear sector's diversification into renewables to speed up?

  31 March 2011

  Nuclear power companies could hasten acquisitions in the renewables sector in response to the Fukushima disaster, says consultancy PwC.

• US nuclear faces fight over loan guarantees

  31 March 2011

  US nuclear opponents are gearing up for a fight to stop nuclear power stations from receiving federal loan guarantees in light of the feared meltdown in Japan.

• EU proposes 60% transport emission cut; not tough enough for greens

  31 March 2011

  The European Commission plans to slash 60% from the EU's transport emissions by 2050, compared to 1990 levels, but environmental lobbyists said the proposal lacks ambition.