Features June 2002

Weather report - Enron

Silver lining for weather market

Enron’s collapse robbed the weather market of its largest team. But its dispersal may well turn out to be a bonus. Mark Nicholls reports Read more...

Weather report - exchanges

Brighter forecast

Exchange-traded weather derivatives are beginning to attract healthy volumes in the US, but Europe’s listed contracts are lagging, finds Alex Mathias

Weather report - end-users

A first taste of hedging

David Radulski explains how a brewing firm could take its first steps towards hedging its weather exposure

Weather report - technology

Model solutions

Off-the-shelf weather risk management systems can make economic sense for new entrants to the weather market. Six developers set out their stalls

Kyoto Protocol

Watchful eyes on emissions projects

Increasing NGO scrutiny of developing world emissions projects could have profound effect on developers and investors, says Kirsty Hamilton Read more...

How I see it - by Richard Sandor

Here come the states

Initiatives by several US states promise to make valuable contributions to greenhouse reduction efforts

Market view

Clear skies and business certainty

The Bush administration’s Clear Skies initiative endorses emissions trading, but leaves industry waiting for much of the detail, says Lisa Jacobson

Emissions trading

The state of the SIP call

It’s all change for the NOx market in the Northeast United States, as it prepares for a major expansion. David Biello reports

Shareholder activism

Investors enter climate fray

Concerned investors are targeting corporate America’s climate change policies, with an unprecedented raft of shareholder resolutions. Ricardo Bayon reports

Environmental markets

What nature's worth

Markets in environmental services can help protect the world’s forests – but their design and impacts need to be carefully analysed, say Natasha Landell-Mills and Ina Porras

Emissions trading

from concept to reality

UK companies that get to grips with the Emissions Trading Scheme could gain a competitive advantage, argues Tim Atkinson

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