Archive

  • Meeting the measurement challenge

    01 September 2008

    For too long, asset owners have had few means of assessing the real environmental, social and governance skills of their asset managers. Jonathan Horton explains how a new benchmark can help both sides measure and manage ESG issues

  • The environment on the stump

    01 September 2008

    Eight years of federal foot-dragging on climate change are set to be reversed come January – whichever candidate wins the keys to the White House. But, as Gloria Gonzalez reports, the apparent similarities of the two presidential candidates' energy and climate policies mask profound differences

  • The path to optimisation

    01 September 2008

    Andreas Wiese explains how to analyse the risk and ensure the financial optimisation of portfolios of renewable energy projects

  • People moves this month

    01 September 2008

    JON WILLIAMS, head of group sustainable development at HSBC, is to leave the banking giant to take up a new role as partner, sustainability and climate change, at Pricewaterhouse­Coopers in London.

  • Less than zero

    01 July 2008

    Barely a week goes past without another company claiming some kind of carbon neutrality. But do the claims stack up? Iain Watt and Bill Burtis attempt to make the sums work

  • A spark in the tank?

    01 July 2008

    High oil prices and climate change concerns are turning up the voltage on the electric car industry. Alexandra Cran-McGreehin reports on where investors see the most promising opportunities

  • Made in China

    01 July 2008

    There is no doubt: China's wind energy market will be massive. But what role will foreign developers, turbine makers and investors play? Joshua Speckman reports

  • In the eye of the beholder

    01 July 2008

    Another summer, another G8 summit. This one, on the Japanese island of Hokkaido, apparently cost its hosts $590 million to stage, and goodness knows how much to convene the usual travelling circus of politicians, diplomats and journalists.

  • An allowance to take to the bank

    01 July 2008

    Congress should look to carbon allowance property rights when it revisits the Lieberman-Warner bill – or risk hitting the liquidity of the carbon market, say Patrick Traylor and James Morin

  • Asking the right questions

    01 July 2008

    The EU faces an uphill battle to meet its 2020 renewable energy and greenhouse gas targets. The UK's energy minister Malcolm Wicks sets out how the UK is rising to the challenge