Archive

  • 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

  • Back to the drawing board

    01 April 2008

    Allison Wood unpicks the US Court of Appeals ruling that gutted the EPA's mercury trading proposals – and suggests the story doesn't end here

  • Can carbon make nuclear pay?

    01 April 2008

    The US nuclear industry is hopeful that the introduction of carbon trading will help finance a new generation of nuclear power plants. But the European experience may give them pause. Jess McCabe reports

  • Coming into its own

    01 April 2008

    Concerns over energy security and climate change are persuading politicians that nuclear power has a vital role to play in the electricity supply mix of the future, says Ian Hore-Lacy

  • From wind to water

    01 April 2008

    With €1.7 billion under management, Bozena Jankowska's EcoTrends fund has become one of the largest environmental funds in the market. Now the RCM fund manager is turning her attention to the water sector. Mark Nicholls reports