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Features February 2003

Emissions trading

Oil firms learn trading lessons

BP and Shell completed ambitious internal emissions trading schemes last year. Mark Nicholls examines what lessons other companies should take from their experiences More...

Fund management

SRI funds share market gloom

As an asset class, SRI tracked the broader market last year. Melanie Goodfellow reports on the funds that flourished and those that floundered in a difficult financial climate More...

How I see it by Richard Sandor

Chicago shows the way

In an unprecedented initiative, leading US and international companies have pledged to reduce their carbon emissions as founding members of the Chicago Climate Exchange

Fund management

A bull market in SRI research?

New SRI rating agencies continue to emerge, and each brings a new approach to research. Alex Mathias asks whether the market can support such a myriad of choices

Emissions trading

Slovakia unveils carbon plans

The Slovak Republic is poised to announce its plans for central Europe’s first national carbon trading scheme. Stanislav Kolar and Ivan Mojik explain how it will work

NOx trading

Traders look to a transformed market

The OTC NOx market is dead – long live the SIP Call Market. David Biello reports on a major expansion in US NOx trading

Renewable energy

Drilling into the ROC market

The UK’s Renewables Obligation is at the cutting edge of market-based approaches to boosting green power generation. Fiona Santokie reviews its first year

Opinion

Closing the gap

Emma Howard Boyd warns that SRI investors must apply standards rigorously or their reputations could be at risk

Market view

A call to action

The emissions trading community has an obligation to explain its benefits to the public, who have been bombarded by sensationalised media reports, argues Daniel Chartier

Weather risk

Bringing it all together

Including weather risk in commodity price hedges can provide cost-effective and highly-tailored risk management tools. Nicholas Ernst explains

 

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