News

• Maplecroft launches US climate indexes

  28 January 2010

  Risk analysis firm Maplecroft has launched a family of indexes to track climate-related innovation and carbon management at some of the biggest companies in the US.

• Climate policies 'generating returns for investors' – Deutsche Bank

  21 January 2010

  Tilting investment portfolios towards companies offering solutions to climate change is already generating outperformance for investors, and will continue to do so, regardless of the disappointing outcome of the Copenhagen climate talks, according to Deutsche Bank.

• Middle East ESG index finally to be launched this year

  21 January 2010

  The first environmental, social and governance (ESG) index of Middle Eastern and North African companies is due to be launched later this year – two years after it was first announced.

• UK's Miliband 'confident' of binding climate pact in Mexico

  14 January 2010

  UN talks in Mexico at the end of this year are likely to produce the legally binding climate change treaty that eluded negotiators in Copenhagen, according to the UK's climate change secretary of state.

• Commission's environment, energy picks please MEPs

  14 January 2010

  The transition to a sustainable economy must be at the heart of all EU policies, said EU environment commissioner-designate Janez Potočnik during a three-hour grilling yesterday by the European Parliament's environment committee.

• Financing questions for UK's gargantuan offshore wind plan

  14 January 2010

  A potential 32GW of offshore wind capacity could be developed in the UK after the government granted rights to nine coastal zones – but questions remain over how these projects will be financed.

• US government awards $2.3bn for clean energy manufacturing

  14 January 2010

  US federal agencies have awarded $2.3 billion in tax credits for clean energy manufacturing projects in a move designed to spur a major push in renewable energy development.

• Beetle Capital plans fixed income 'natural capital' product

  14 January 2010

  A new asset manager established by a founder of Climate Change Capital is planning a fixed income fund as its first sustainable investment product pursuing a "natural capital" theme.

• Renewables targets, 'Green Bank' likely if cap and trade fails

  14 January 2010

  If climate legislation stalls in the US Congress this year, lawmakers will likely move forward with an energy bill that includes a federal renewable portfolio standard (RPS) and a 'Green Bank' to help finance renewable energy projects, according to law firm Van Ness Feldman's 2010 outlook.

• Proposed ISO criteria get cool response from bioenergy sector

  14 January 2010

  European bioenergy organisations have expressed concerns about plans by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) for a new standard to address sustainability issues linked to bioenergy.