Opinion

Winds of change for big oil?

Are the world’s oil majors really the right companies to lead us into a low-carbon future, asks Nick Robins more...

Insurance – Climate Change

Adapt and survive

Climate change is unlikely to be as disastrous for the insurance sector as many believe, says Robert Muir Wood more...

Insurance – Environmental Liability

Directive brings dose of uncertainty

The EU’s Environmental Liability Directive promises to transform how companies insure against their environmental risks – but no-one is quite sure exactly how. Jessica McCallin and Mark Nicholls report

Emissions Trading

Power plants look to clean up

The market has spoken: US electric utilities are looking to cut sulphur dioxide emissions, rather than buy allowances. Ray Pospisil reports

Fund Management

Tapping into the mainstream

It’s the ‘mainstream’ investment managers, rather than the environmental specialists, who are bankrolling London’s renewables revolution, say Tom Whitehouse and Charles Millar

Fund Management

Aiming too high?

Could many investors piling into the clean energy sector come to regret their enthusiasm? Michael Liebreich spots warning signs

Carbon Finance

Powering renewables

Monique Willis, Martijn Wilder, and Paul Curnow consider how the Clean Development Mechanism can be made to deliver more renewables projects

Renewable Energy

Developing renewable success stories

Pioneering investment funds are showing how renewable energy projects can be made to work – even in developing countries, finds Mike Allen

Green Certificates

Guaranteeing markets for green power

Growing demand for ‘Guarantees of Origin’ and green certificates are underpinning the growth of renewable energy capacity in Europe, say Jussi Nykanen and Thomas Muller

Market View

A sectoral approach

Jake Schmidt spells out a sector-based approach to setting the next round of greenhouse gas reduction targets

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