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Features March 2003

The following are summaries of the features that appeared in the March 2003 print edition of Environmental Finance magazine

Fund management

Investors turn up heat on climate change

Investors worth more than $4.5 trillion have been asking tough questions about climate change. Mark Nicholls looks at how the world’s 500 largest companies responded More...

How I see it by Richard Sandor

Institutional innovation

Those building the institutions to support greenhouse gas emissions trading can learn a lot from earlier financial innovators


Weather report
Exchanges

CME contracts clear 1,000 hurdle

The CME’s weather derivatives contracts have come of age – trading more than 1,000 futures in January. David Biello reports More...

Climate

A world of weather

Extreme weather events and climatic anomalies in 2002

North America

Cold weather to put heat in US market?

David Biello examines how weather traders dealt with an unexpectedly harsh winter in parts of the US

End-user profile

Defying the next drought

Southern Hydro’s precipitation hedge will bring more certainty to its revenues, come rain or shine. Mark Nicholls reports


Emissions trading

Allocation promises EU power shake-up

The competitive landscape of the EU power sector is set to be redrawn, says Abyd Karmali, when billions of euros worth of greenhouse gas allowances are handed out

Corporate governance

Examining Enron's SO2 trades

Jeremy Weinstein reports on the bankruptcy court’s investigation into Enron’s complex – and controversial – SO2 trades

Fund management

Renewed hope for renewables

Shares in renewable energy companies have been hammered in the last two years, but Alex Mathias finds fund managers still bullish about their prospects

Market view

A green jewel box

Jaap Jansen argues for keeping green certificates simple

Kyoto Protocol

The prices of carbon

All carbon reductions are equal, but some are more equal than others, say Michael Molitor, Laurent Segalen and Kristian Rajakaltio

 

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