November issue of Environmental Finance out now

London, 15 November: The latest issue of Environmental Finance is now available, including a special supplement previewing the UN climate change negotiations in Bali.

Clean-tech investors have been nervous about the high valuations of companies in the sector, but investment bank Morgan Stanley explains in this issue why this boom is different from the recent dot-com and biotech bubbles.

The supplement introduces this year’s UN climate change conference, which will be the starting point for negotiations on a new international climate agreement to take effect after 2012. It includes features on what the ‘Bali mandate’ must include, how to credit avoided deforestation and what the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism has delivered to date, as well as an interview with the chairman of the mechanism’s Executive Board, Hans Jürgen Stehr.

Elsewhere in the issue, Benoit de Vitry of Barclays Capital suggests to the rule-makers of the US’ Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative what they can learn from the implementation of the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme.

Other features in the issue include:

• How US emission markets are coping with impending pollution legislation;
• Why it is difficult to judge corporate greenhouse gas emissions;
• What opportunities banks are uncovering in climate change;
• How electric cars can dramatically reduce transport emissions; and
• A profile of ABP portfolio mananger Rob Lake.

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