News

• Investor groups call for more transparency from oil & gas sector

  17 March 2010

  Oil and gas companies need to provide investors with better information on how they are managing climate change risks, according to three leading institutional investor groups.

• Bureaucracy holding up DOE renewables cash – GAO

  11 March 2010

  The US Department of Energy (DOE) is encountering numerous obstacles to releasing funds for clean energy projects from last year's economic stimulus package, including federally-mandated environmental reviews and monthly reporting requirements.

• Ex-Im votes on carbon blueprint, slammed by NGOs

  11 March 2010

  The US Export-Import (Ex-Im) Bank has developed a more detailed implementation plan for its carbon policy – but environment groups slammed the plan, which was distributed to stakeholders but has not been publicly released.

• Stern backs $100bn IMF climate fund plan

  11 March 2010

  A climate fund proposed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to raise $100 billion a year by 2020 has won support from climate change economics guru Nicholas Stern.

• Wind industry calls for US RES, as first project guaranteed

  11 March 2010

  The economic stimulus package has provided valuable support for the US wind energy sector, but a national renewable electricity standard (RES) is the policy tenet most critical to the industry's development, project sponsors said.

• Plans hatched to build renewables 'super grid'

  11 March 2010

  Europe will not meet its targets on renewable energy without building a massive 'super grid' to connect offshore wind and solar farms, said a lobby group this week.

• European investors see IPO markets opening

  11 March 2010

  Most European investors expect to see an increasing number of clean technology companies floated over the next 18 months, according to a survey by investor communications firm Carbon International.

• Intervention in EU ETS needed to spur investment – MP

  11 March 2010

  EU governments should intervene in the bloc's flagship emissions trading scheme (ETS) to drive prices high enough to spur low-carbon investments, said a UK Member of Parliament (MP).

• Pension funds to study climate impacts on assets

  11 March 2010

  Concerned that climate change will impact their long-term returns, 14 institutional investors and consultancy Mercer are to research how different climate scenarios could affect their assets.

• IBM earns energy efficiency certificates from server upgrade

  11 March 2010

  Technology giant IBM has become the first company to register energy efficiency certificates (EECs) on an APX registry, following improvements to a data centre in Canada.