News

• Investors, forest peoples in talks over forest finance

  27 May 2010

  Investors met with forest-dependent peoples in London this week, for "non-confrontational" discussions around controversial forest financing plans.

• CDM investments plummet 59% – World Bank

  27 May 2010

  Investment in Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects fell 59% last year, said the World Bank yesterday.

• Companies ignoring biodiversity risk, finds PwC

  27 May 2010

  Only six of the world's 100 largest companies are acting to minimise their impact on biodiversity, according to analysis by consultancy PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).

• Environmental insurers see silver lining from Gulf spill

  27 May 2010

  The Gulf of Mexico oil disaster is projected to be a sizeable insurance event, but could also be the largest non-insured business interruption loss in US history, one insurer has predicted, potentially leading to a surge of new environmental insurance purchases to plug coverage gaps.

• Tailwind drops for US wind energy sector

  27 May 2010

  The US wind sector will have a hard time expanding in 2010, highlighting the need for new government policies to support renewables such as a national renewable electricity standard (RES), according to a study.

• EC lays out 30% reduction options

  27 May 2010

  The European Commission yesterday published its official analysis of how the EU could increase its 2020 emissions reduction target to 30% – raising the possibility of reducing the number of allowances to be auctioned and introducing a multiplier for offset credits.

• Tony Blair takes Khosla shilling

  27 May 2010

  Former UK prime minister Tony Blair has joined California venture capital (VC) firm Khosla Ventures.

• JPMorgan Chase sets out mountaintop removal policy

  20 May 2010

  JPMorgan Chase has joined the ranks of banks with policies on mountaintop removal (MTR), but not in time to avoid a failing grade on a 'rank 'em and spank 'em' scorecard by Rainforest Action Network (RAN).

• Macquarie launching US renewables infrastructure fund

  20 May 2010

  Macquarie, one of the world's leading infrastructure investment managers, is understood to be raising money into a fund focused on US renewable energy infrastructure.

• Nominations open for 2010 Environmental Finance awards

  20 May 2010

  Environmental Finance and Carbon Finance are seeking nominations for this year's awards.