News

• CLSA appoints sustainability research head

  19 November 2009

  Leading Hong Kong-based brokerage CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets has hired Simon Powell as its first head of sustainability research.

• November issue of Environmental Finance out now

  19 November 2009

  The latest issue of Environmental Finance is now available, featuring a special report examining the key issues faced by the international climate change negotiators in Copenhagen next month.

• November issue of Carbon Finance out now

  19 November 2009

  The November issue of Carbon Finance is now available, including the latest on negotiations on a post-2012 international climate agreement.

• EU 'well on track' to meet Kyoto target

  12 November 2009

  The EU is on track to meet its Kyoto Protocol target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, according to the European Commission's annual emissions report.

• US to boost solar manufacturing with tax credits

  12 November 2009

  US Senators have introduced a bill that would extend the 30% solar investment tax credit (ITC) to equipment and facilities used to manufacture solar technology.

• EIB, banks up UK onshore wind funding

  12 November 2009

  The European Investment Bank (EIB) and three private sector banks are to lend up to £1.4 billion ($2.3 billion) to onshore wind farms in the UK – 40% more than was planned just three months ago when the programme was first flagged.

• Invicta seeks £300m for Scottish biomass fund

  12 November 2009

  Invicta Capital aims to raise £300 million ($496 million) into a fund to develop nine biomass combined heat-and-power plants in Scotland.

• Mountain plans second German clean-tech fund

  12 November 2009

  Mountain Cleantech, a Switzerland-based investment group, plans to launch its second fund targeting the clean technology (clean-tech) sector in German-speaking countries.

• Walkers chips away at water footprint of crisps

  05 November 2009

  PepsiCo UK & Ireland, the company behind Walkers Crisps, has undertaken a project to identify practical actions to reduce water usage by potato growers, the firm said in its annual environmental sustainability report published last month.

• JV formed to develop Desertec plan

  05 November 2009

  A joint venture has been set up to pursue the €400 billion ($595 billion) Desertec project, to build solar and wind projects in the deserts of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) to supply local energy needs – and export electricity to Europe.