Recycling

Where there's muck there's brass

Mark Nicholls reports on an innovative new venture capital fund, designed to catalyse private sector investment in the UK’s recycling sector More...

Fund management

Emerging markets for SRI?

A new study from the IFC suggests that socially responsible investors should increase their focus on emerging markets, to both improve those economies’ sustainability and to participate in the developing world’s growth. Dan Siddy explains More...

Weather risk

Moving stations and making money

Small changes to weather stations can significantly alter the data they yield.This presents weather traders with money-making opportunities – and expensive pitfalls, say Steve Jewson, Dave Whitehead and Jeff Hamlin

Emissions trading

Relative challenges

There is growing interest in designing trading schemes based on ‘emissions intensity’ targets. Richard Rosenzweig and Matthew Varilek consider their pros and cons

Export credit

Behind the environmental curve

OECD export credit agencies have struggled to agree on the environmental guidelines they should follow when making financing decisions.An agreement is overdue, but within reach, says Crescencia Maurer

How I see it by Richard Sandor

Water - new horizons for markets

Market mechanisms are helping to improve the purity of US waterways

Market view

Mercury takes centre stage

Larry Monroe argues in favour of a marketbased approach to tackling mercury emissions from US power plants – and against the EPA’s threatened regulations

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