Archive

  • A scheme with legs

    01 July 2007

    The EU Emissions Trading Scheme needs longer-term horizons, says Patrick Nollet, and governments and industry should also recognise that it is operating as two markets in one – and give it the two legs that it needs

  • Biofuels and the future

    01 July 2007

    In the space of 12 months, the biofuels industry has gone from climate saviour to environmental scapegoat. But it has a crucial – and sustainable – role to play in tackling climate change and energy insecurity, says Ron Oxburgh

  • The unlikely revolutionary

    01 July 2007

    Ray Pospisil talks to GE's Kevin Walsh – the man responsible for building one of the world's largest ­renewable energy investment portfolios

  • Between innovation and scale

    01 July 2007

    The water sector does not offer the paradigm-busting innovations beloved of venture capitalists, or the scale favoured by private equity investors. So new investment strategies are needed, says Christoph Lueneburger

  • Turning on the taps

    01 July 2007

    Despite the size of the world's water sector – and the scale of its investment needs – opportunities for exposure to the industry have been limited. But, as Charlotte Steel reports, a flood of new water funds is coming to market

  • Testing the limits of trade

    01 July 2007

    As climate change threatens to increase the variability and unpredictability of rainfall, Australia's experiences with water trading could be invaluable, says James Bentley

  • Adding up the numbers

    01 June 2007

    Matthew Arnold considers how sustainable banking has moved from a sideshow, to a risk management issue, to a major business opportunity – and looks at how Citigroup came up with its $50 billiion pledge

  • Circling the Equator

    01 June 2007

    Some banks appear to be dodging their commitment to the Equator Principles, says David Barnden – but it's proving ­difficult to hold them to account

  • The beginnings of a plan

    01 June 2007

    Canada's new emissions plan may be tougher on industry than many environmentalists claim. But more will clearly be required across all sectors of Canadian society, says John Drexhage

  • Cap and trade and more

    01 June 2007

    Pressure is building for a federal cap-and-trade scheme in the US to tackle greenhouse gas emissions. However, such a scheme is a necessary, but not sufficient, condition for ­addressing the climate challenge, say Michael Northrop and David Sassoon