Archive

  • Another look at additionality

    01 May 2008

    Eron Bloomgarden and Mark Trexler argue for a top-down approach to assessing carbon offset project additionality

  • EU allowance delays threaten 'cascade of defaults'

    01 May 2008

    An ongoing delay in the issuance of EU allow­ances (EUAs) to emitters in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) could lead to "mass-scale default" in the EU emissions market, market participants have warned.

  • Behind the numbers

    01 May 2008

    Statistics can obscure as much as they illuminate. Ivo Knoepfel and Gordon Hagart caution that the rash of numbers showing the growth of socially responsible and sustainable investments should be treated with caution

  • Cleaning up the energy sector

    01 May 2008

    The credit crisis, likely carbon caps and a new president will all impact on the US renewables market. But, as Michael Eckhart tells Christopher Cundy, the industry's future remains very bright

  • Opening the books.

    01 May 2008

    Corporate responsibility reporting is getting deeper and broader – by and large. Paul Scott reviews trends in ­corporate disclosure

  • Picking up speed

    01 May 2008

    Richard Boddington and Simon Luby examine how trends in wind farm financing have evolved as the market has entered the mainstream

  • A shifting kaleidoscope

    01 April 2008

    The global biofuels industry is realigning, says Ben Warren, as sustainability concerns, shifting support schemes, and changing agricultural markets exert differing pressures across the value chain

  • Reassessing risk

    01 April 2008

    On the face of it, Bear Stearns' collapse does not appear to have a great deal to do with climate change. The venerable Wall Street institution was brought to its knees by the investment banking equivalent of an old-fashioned run on its assets, by investors and counterparties who had no confidence that the bank could make good on its commitments.

  • An enterprise-wide approach

    01 April 2008

    The emergence of the derivatives business forced banks to take a new approach to risk management. It is time to apply those lessons to carbon, says Ron Dembo

  • Changing the financing climate

    01 April 2008

    The European Investment Bank's lending policy has changed radically to meet the challenge of global warming, Christopher Cundy reports