Weather risk
New entrants take chill off weather market
There are certainly fewer energy companies trading weather
risk than 12 months ago. But their absence is being offset
by growing end-user demand, dealers tell David Biello
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Fund management
SRI sales surprise in market downturn
Investors may be turning their backs on miserably-performing
stock markets, but demand for socially responsible investments,
in the US at least, is holding up well. Alex Mathias asks
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Emissions trading
Trading taxes UK firms
Will UK companies turn to the emissions
market to help them meet climate change
targets – and potentially save themselves millions
of pounds worth of tax? George
Meyrick reports
Reporting
Banks look to indirect impacts
The lending and investment decisions of banks can have much
more profound environmental and social impacts than their
energy or paper use. And the leading banks are starting to
report on them, say Paul Scott and Steve John
How I see it by Richard Sandor
How emissions can make wind power pay
The economics of wind farms are often in the
balance – but avoided emissions costs can
make the sums make sense
Market view
NOx lessons for GHG markets
The designers of markets for greenhouse gas
emissions would do well to look at a complex
– yet successful – US regional market in
nitrogen oxide allowances, says Thaddeus
Huetteman
Environmental accounting
Coming of age
Accounting for the cost of the ‘free’ goods
and services the planet provides is helping
companies uncover hidden value, improve
their risk management – and prepare for the
inevitable, says Rupert Howes
Emissions trading
How to avoid double counting
Mike Burnett and Michael Ashford explain
how industry can earn emissions credits for
reducing power consumption, without the
risk of ‘double counting’ greenhouse gas
reductions
go to News November 2002
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