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Climate Change: Emissions: Weather: Investment: Lending: Insurance
 
 

Features, November 2001

How I see it by Richard Sandor

Eu backs market-based approach

The proposed EU carbon trading scheme is a big step in the convergence of environmental and capital markets Weather risk

Capacity concerns

Cloudweather market

How will rising premiums in the insurance sector impact the weather risk market? Mark Nicholls investigates

Environmental insurance

Cleaning up on Environmental risks

Despite insurers’ current woes, companies offering environmental insurance are optimistic, says Mark Nicholls

Emissions trading

Norway looks to early trading start

The new government has industry support for its plans to accelerate its emissions trading scheme. Geir Høibye explains

Reporting

ISO backs reporting

The International Standards Organisation is putting its weight behind efforts to improve corporate environmental reporting. But the initiative has its critics, says Paul Scott

Weather risk

In praise of climate Data

Steve Jewson and David Whitehead say the weather derivatives market is likely to rely on climate data rather than SYNOP data for the foreseeable future

Climate change

Investors enter climate debate

Emma Hunt and Robert Casamento review a recent study analysing the impact of climate change on shareholder value. More ...

Fund management

Italian market set for growth

Despite a recent setback on corporate transparency, SRI is on the increase in Italy, says Davide Dal Maso

Market view

Carbon-denominated weather swaps

Jeremy Weinstein suggests some synergies between weather and emissions trades

Kyoto protocol

Closing the gap with CDM

Geothermal energy developers in Indonesia have high hopes for the Clean Development Mechanism. David Biello reports

Emissions trading

Spreading the Carbon net

Carbon certification could greatly increase the number of companies offsetting and reducing their emissions, says Andrew Owens

Profile

Ken Newcombe

  News November 2001
   
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