News

• Towers Watson adds to sustainable investment team

  11 February 2010

  Investment consultant Towers Watson has bolstered its sustainable investment team with the hire of Emma Hunt from Mercer Investment Consulting.

• Winners announced in voluntary carbon markets survey

  11 February 2010

  US investment bank JP Morgan has won three out of eight categories in Environmental Finance's survey of the voluntary carbon markets.

• February issue of Carbon Finance out now

  11 February 2010

  The February issue of Carbon Finance is now available, including a look at the prospects for the global carbon market in 2010.

• Obama ups renewables funding, cuts fossil subsidies

  04 February 2010

  Clean energy was a winner in US President Barack Obama's proposed budget, with major funding increases despite his pledge to control spending.

• Analysts applaud Shell's Cosan biofuels bet

  04 February 2010

  Investment analysts have responded positively to Shell's planned $12 billion joint venture (JV) with Brazilian ethanol giant Cosan, predicting it could help push Brazilian ethanol into world markets.

• Infrastructure investors needed to meet renewables targets

  04 February 2010

  Pension funds and insurance companies must raise their investments in clean energy infrastructure if the EU is going to have a chance of meeting its targets for renewable energy capacity and carbon reduction, a panel of investors said this week.

• EU to fund carbon capture with 300m emissions allowances

  04 February 2010

  EU member states have agreed to distribute 300 million carbon allowances from the bloc's emissions trading scheme (ETS) to fund renewable energy and carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects from 2013.

• Review finds mixed progress on Climate Principles

  04 February 2010

  The five financial institutions which founded the Climate Principles have further to go in integrating climate analysis into their operations, according to an independent review of their progress.

• Hopes build for US Green Bank

  04 February 2010

  A proposed 'Green Bank' to help finance renewable energy projects in the US may get a boost from an unexpected source: a series of jobs bills aimed at lowering the nation's stubbornly high unemployment rate.

• UK introduces feed-in tariff for small-scale renewables

  04 February 2010

  UK householders, businesses and communities which install small-scale renewables will, from April, earn a feed-in tariff.