Corporate disclosure
Pressure builds
Activist groups, institutional investors, and now the Securities
and Exchange Commission are considering how to ensure companies
disclose social and environmental liabilities. David Biello
reports More...
Weather risk
Still blaming weather
Mark Nicholls reports on three companies that blamed poor
earnings on the weather – and finds equity analysts happy
to let them off the hook More...
Emissions trading
A limit by any other name
A proposed limit on the number of JI and CDM credits in the
EU trading scheme has been watered down. But Jed Jones argues
that a lack of supply will still restrict their use
Kyoto mechanisms
Has the Executive Board killed the CDM?
Mark Trexler, Toru Kobu and Oliver Smith consider the implications
of the Executive Board’s first decisions on CDM methodologies
– and find early concerns overplayed…
Any way forward?
…but Marc Stuart and Fred Wellington
warn that the Executive Board decisions
could squeeze green energy out of the CDM
The CCX auction – 20 questions
How the auction of allowances for the
Chicago Climate Exchange will work
Emissions trading
IETA offers EU master
Robert Dornau explains how a master
agreement for EU emissions trades should
facilitate the market’s growth
Emissions trading
Grappling with allocation
EU governments have until March to allocate allowances to
companies covered by the emissions trading scheme. Alex Mathias
reports
Weather risk
A sunnier outlook for European utilities?
Lee Munden and Paul Lund argue that weather hedging could
help underpin the credit profiles of European power firms
Fund management
Small caps get SRI treatment
This month sees the launch of the first small
cap SRI index.Will it spur interest in this
neglected asset class? Alex Mathias reports
Market view
Environmental assets
Companies should strive for the economic optimisation of
environmental assets, says Michael Canterbury
Renewable energy
On the track of green certificates
As US renewable energy markets grow, so
too does the importance of certificate tracking
systems, says Anna Giovinetto
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