Archive

  • WEATHER RISK DEAL OF THE YEAR Origin Energy/Marsh wind and power hedge

    01 July 2009

    Wind farms are supplying an ever-growing proportion of the world's energy demand, but the feedstock – wind – is an unpredictable resource compared with fossil fuels and presents particular risk management issues for power suppliers, for whom not meeting delivery obligations could prove financially disastrous.

  • Counting the carbon

    01 July 2009

    The prospect of a federal cap-and-trade programme in the US and the imminent introduction of the Carbon Reduction Commitment in the UK means thousands more companies will soon need to measure and manage their GHG emissions. Elizabeth Jeffries looks at the response of software suppliers

  • Making quality count?

    01 July 2009

    With raw material costs plummeting and competition hotting up from low-cost Chinese producers, Q-Cells is hoping its customers will pay for quality. Greg Bousfield reports

  • Feeding a warming world

    01 July 2009

    The agricultural sector faces massive growth in demand for its products – in the teeth of significant impacts from climate change. However, the challenges present significant investment opportunities, say Bruce Kahn and David Zaks

  • Keeping a lid on costs

    01 July 2009

    The offset provisions of the Waxman-Markey climate and energy bill provide a crucial means to lower its costs – but the Senate would do well to improve upon them, says Lisa Jacobson

  • Time to take risk

    01 July 2009

    Forget the recession – this is exactly the time that venture capitalists should be taking risks, especially in clean-tech, says sector exemplar Ira Ehrenpreis. He talks to Gloria Gonzalez

  • A different kind of downturn?

    01 June 2009

    It might seem an odd place to look. But for evidence that environmental issues are, finally, becoming squarely incorporated into the corporate mainstream, one could do worse than examine the banking sector.

  • People moves this month

    01 June 2009

    Comings and goings in Environmental Finance this month

  • Built for success

    01 June 2009

    Fred Krupp of the Environmental Defense Fund explains why the NGO is backing Waxman-Markey to cap US greenhouse gas emissions

  • Back to business as usual?

    01 June 2009

    The financial crisis has transformed the banking landscape. But where has it left the pursuit of 'sustainable banking'? Jess McCabe reports