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Features May 2006

The following are summaries of the features that appeared in the May 2006 print edition of Environmental Finance magazine

Opinion

A Clean energy pathway

A new international investment framework is required, says Robert Watson, to meet the developing worlds energy needs without endangering the climate more...

Insurance

Adapt and mitigate

Insurers could insulate themselves from climate change risk but they should also remain engaged with mitigation and adaptation efforts, argues Robert Muir Wood

Nuclear Energy

An atomic future?

The worlds energy and environmental needs mean a future without nuclear power is inconceivable, says John Ritch

Nuclear Energy

Not the magic ingredient

It might cut emissions, but the economics are uncertain, and it will divert investment from clean technologies. Nuclear power faces the heat in a new UK study, reports Graham Cooper

Insurance

A rising tide for flood insurance?

How will the insurance industry respond to a new European directive on flood management? Sarah Rundell reports

Fund Management

Catching the wave

John Sterlicchi reports on how CalPERs one of the worlds largest pension funds is beginning to green its investment portfolio more...

Market View

The next environmental markets?

Competitive markets can speed the introduction of regulatory programmes and reveal vital market information, writes John Palmisano

 

GLOBAL CARBON 2006


A special supplement to Environmental Finance and Carbon Finance, produced for the international carbon fair, Carbon Expo. Including:

The Clean Development Mechanism - from the sell side and the buy side

Prospects for Joint Implementation – Russia, Ukraine, eligibility and the JISC

Where next for the EU Emissions Trading Scheme?

Carbon capture – burying the problem?

The US beyond the Beltway

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