Opinion
Lessons from China to the City
The West needs to improve its social, environmental
and economic engagement with
China – and the South African experience
can point the way, says Peter Kinder
Emissions Trading
Beyond CAIRing?
At a stroke, a US court has pulled the rug
from under the trading schemes meant to
tackle air pollution from US power plants. So
what now? Christopher Cundy reports
Carbon Funds
Why it's still time to invest in carbon
The carbon market is evolving, as are the
carbon funds that provide much of its
finance, says Adrien Assous
US Election
The environment on the stump
The two US presidential candidates both
want to see action on climate change – but
their prescriptions differ radically, finds
Gloria Gonzalez
Sustainable Banking
Feeling the cold?
As banks continue to reel from the effects of
the credit crunch, what is happening to their
nascent environmental market divisions?
Tricia Holly Davis reports
India
More action than meets the eye?
Bishal Thapa and Ritika Goel say that international
observers were wrong to dismiss
India’s recent climate change plan
Fund Management
Meeting the measurement challenge
Jonathan Horton introduces a new benchmark
to measure asset managers’ ESG skills More...
Energy Policy
If they must meddle...
Venture capitalist Richard MacKellar suggests
how policy-makers might want to approach
the environment and energy nexus
Market View
The age of substantiation
Voluntary environmental markets need
greater transparency and more rigorous
reporting, say John Melby and Reiner Musier
Renewable Energy
The path to optimisation
Andreas Wiese applies portfolio theory to
renewable energy
Profile
Simon Shaw
As founder of EEA Fund Management, Simon Shaw has led
some of the most successful investments in environmental and
carbon markets. He tells Christopher Cundy how he did it
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