Carbon Trading
Wind farmers turn to hedges
Wind farm developers and financiers are
finally venturing into the weather derivatives
market. Emily Saunderson explains why More...
How I see it by Richard Sandor
An even dozen
The 12th SO2 auction allowances illustrates
how the market is maturing
Shareholder Activism
Breaking the unwritten rules
Could Cintas’ legal assault on a veteran SRI
analyst have wider implications for the socially
responsible investment community? David
Biello reports
Reporting
Lobbying for transparency
Matt Christensen and Sarah Rio describe an effort to bring
standardised social and environmental reporting to the EU
Market View
A western renewables market place
Jeremy Weinstein describes an ambitious initiative
to track renewable energy certificates
across the US west
Taxation
Tax or trade
While carbon trading may be flavour of the
month, carbon taxes are staging a comeback.
Britt Groosman and Stewart McCarthy look
at the two approaches – and how they can
work together
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MARKET IN CARBON
Preparing for the EU Emissions Trading Scheme
From next January, thousands of companies across the
EU will face carbon dioxide reduction targets, with
the introduction of the world’s first mandatory
international ‘cap and trade’ scheme for greenhouse
gas emissions.
This special supplement to Environmental
Finance, and our sister publication Carbon Finance,
looks at how governments and industry are preparing
for what promises to be the world’s largest environmental
market – and how they are grappling with the thorny
issue of target-setting.
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for more details
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