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Counting the cost of offsetting
01 February 2009Times are tough, but offsetting emissions can still make economic as well as environmental sense. Bill Burtis explains how organisations should approach offsetting
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When is a REC not an offset?
01 February 2009Renewable energy certificates (RECs, green tags or green certificates) represent the quantified non-emissions of a clean form of energy – as measured by how many tonnes of a regulated pollutant would have been emitted in creating that energy from a non-clean form. Those non-emissions are called 'environmental attributes'.
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A sustainable reinvention
01 February 2009The financial sector needs to reinvent itself in the aftermath of the credit crunch. Sustainable investment should be central to that reinvention, say Cary Krosinsky and Nick Robins
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Offsets and Olympics
01 February 2009British Columbia is blazing a trail with its government's pledge to go carbon neutral, and in the development of carbon offset standards. Barbara Hendrickson, Marty Venalainen and Rosanne Van Schie explain
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Australia's countdown begins
01 February 2009Australia's introduction of an emissions trading scheme will transform the operating environment for thousands of the country's organisations. Andrew Petersen considers the implications
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The other credit crunch
01 February 2009The Kyoto Protocol and the EU Emissions Trading Scheme have created a global industry creating and trading carbon credits. But the industry faces upheavals that promise to profoundly redraw it, say David Hampton and Will Lynn
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Going local
01 February 2009The big utilities are beginning to grasp the potential of decentralised energy technologies – promising huge opportunities for investors. Cian McLeavey-Reville and David Morgado consider the prospects for the market, focusing on micro-CHP and energy storage
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Bubbles and busts
01 February 2009Ten years of managing environmental technology funds means that Bruce Jenkyn-Jones is no stranger to a deflating bubble. But he remains medium-term bullish, he tells Mark Nicholls
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Cutting the wrong costs
01 December 2008So much for all the whistling in the dark. Those optimists who had been persuading themselves that, this time, it was going to be different – that, this time, the environment wouldn't be one of the first victims of recession – are gradually being disabused.
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People moves this month
01 December 2008Comings and goings in Environmental Finance this month