Project finance

Bankers see green

Ten of the world’s leading banks have signed up to social and environmental guidelines for financing large projects. But do they go far enough for environmentalists? Alex Mathias reports More...

Kyoto Protocol

Additionality and the carbon market

Derik Broekhoff and Mark Trexler show how the controversial – and often arcane – debate about ‘additionality’ could dramatically impact the global supply of carbon credits More...

Shareholder activism

A revolutionary season

David Biello reports on a dramatic increase in the willingness of shareholders to vote against company boards, and asks where this new-found activism is heading

How I see it by Richard Sandor

Water rights and wrongs

Can market-based solutions help ease tensions over access to water?

Weather risk

Market shrugs off tough year

The latest survey of trading in the weather market confounded expectations of a slump in volumes. Mark Nicholls reports

Weather risk

Nymex to make its play?

The world’s largest energy exchange is eyeing the weather market with intent. Mark Nicholls asks weather dealers what they would like to see from Nymex

Market view

An idea whose time has come

The financial settlement of emissions allowance trades would enlarge the market and boost liquidity, argues Matt Most

Insurance

Looking for cover

Insurance solutions may help with the direct impacts of climate change, but the impacts of climate change policies are a different matter, says Andrew Dlugolecki

Sustainable energy

Financing the future

Eric Usher explains how UNEP is working to pull down barriers to financing clean energy

Recycling

Producer responsibility takes hold

Car makers and electrical goods companies are first in the firing line under the EU’s producer responsibility legislation. But it is probably only a matter of time for other sectors, finds Jessica McCallin

Insurance

Environmental risk and how insurers can help

Marcel Steward and Robert Martin warn that environmental risks may well be lurking on – and off – companies’ balance sheets

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