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Features April 2003

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

Insurance

Are cat bonds changing course?

Issuance of catastrophe-linked bonds remains weak, despite strong investor demand. Alex Mathias reports on efforts to expand the market More...

Weather risk

Fleet Boston credits weather hedgers

Mark Nicholls reports on a bank that is tying its lending decisions to borrowers’ weather risk management

 

Carbon trading
Europe

The devil in the allocation

Governments are drawing up plans to distribute billions of euros worth of emissions allowances for the EU trading scheme – raising competition concerns. Mark Nicholls reports More...

Europe

EU plans move towards reality

Plans for the world’s largest carbon trading scheme are almost finalised. Jos Delbeke sets out what’s been agreed – and what has not

Australia

Australia eyes emissions trading – again

Despite its rejection of the Kyoto Protocol, Australia has put emissions trading back on the agenda. But Murray Griffin finds controversy continuing

Projects

Dutch CDM tender teaches early lessons

As an early buyer of CDM credits, the Dutch government has learnt some valuable lessons. Lex de Jonge explains

UK ETS

A qualified success

The UK’s trailblazing emissions trading scheme achieved two out of three of the government’s objectives, concludes a new study. David Robson reports

 

How I see it – by Richard Sandor

The power of an idea

Another largely routine annual auction of SO2 allowances shows the growing maturity of the market

Fund management

The shape of risks to come

Toby Belsom considers some of today’s over-the-horizon corporate issues that could become the bottom-line risks of tomorrow

Sustainable development

A business case for biodiversity?

The private sector is increasingly being co-opted into the effort to protect the planet’s biological diversity. Graham Cooper reports

Market view

All eyes on the NSR

Kyle Danish examines the increasingly bitter debate around the future of the US New Source Review programme

 

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