The voluntary carbon market held up better than its bigger mandatory brother in 2011 but, say the top ranked firms in Environmental Finance’s market survey, innovation and differentiation will be key to success in what is still a tough environment. Mark Nicholls reports

The weather market hasn’t escaped the effects of the drop in risk appetite in commodity markets more broadly – but end-user business remains solid and new opportunities, such as in renewable energy, are keeping participants busy. Mark Nicholls reports

It’s been a dire year for EU emissions trading and the Clean Development Mechanism – but things look brighter in California and Australia. Christopher Cundy reports

While the US has largely avoided the financing freeze afflicting the European renewables market in recent months, financiers are nervous about what 2012 might hold. Mark Nicholls reports

Not for the first time, traders and emitters in the US environmental markets are anxiously awaiting possible judicial intervention – this time, in the EPA’s newly minted CSAPR markets. Gloria Gonzalez reports

Weather risk dealers report a steady, if unspectacular, year in the market, while the catastrophe risk market has been buoyed by growing bond issuance. Charlotte Dudley reports

Policy uncertainty has sent a chill through renewable energy markets in 2010, but financing, at least, is starting to thaw. Jess McCabe reports

It’s been a year of setbacks and disappointments for the carbon markets. But Mark Nicholls finds growing optimism among the winners of Environmental Finance’s Market Survey

The regulatory omens don’t look good for the major US emissions markets, and the economic downturn has dried up liquidity in the regional ones. Gloria Gonzalez reports on a gloomy year in SO2 and NOx

After a tough 2009, winners of Environmental Finance’s 10th annual market survey are hopeful that 2010 will be the breakthrough year for carbon markets around the world. Mark Nicholls reports

Recent months have seen the renewables markets begin to pull themselves out of the doldrums. Jess McCabe finds the winners in the renewable energy categories of the Environmental Finance market survey in optimistic mood

A combination of the recession and regulatory uncertainty have cast a dark cloud over US emissions markets. Gloria Gonzalez hears the concerns of a market in limbo

Depression hit the weather and catastrophe risk markets in 2009, but a recovery is under way and the underlying business remains strong. Christopher Cundy reports

The Clean Development Mechanism is a mess, uncertainty clouds the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, and the world’s on the brink of recession – but at least the Americans are getting on board. Mark Nicholls talks to the carbon market winners of Environmental Finance’s 2008 Market Survey

The renewable energy sector was late to feel the cold hand of the credit crisis – but financiers and REC traders are braced for a chillier 2009. Jess McCabe talks to the renewable energy winners of Environmental Finance’s Market Survey

The striking down of the Clean Air Interstate Rule has thrown the US emissions markets into confusion. Gloria Gonzalez finds the winners of Environmental Finance’s market survey anxiously awaiting resolution

The financial crisis has seen some speculative money leaving the weather market. But plenty of end-user deals are still being done, reports Christopher Cundy