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Call to financiers to fund emerging markets renewables revolution
28 October 2013Financiers need to help the renewables industry shift its focus from the "dying" Western subsidies market and embrace the "phenomenal revolution" in emerging markets, a conference heard.
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UK renewables projects earmarked for government loan guarantees
22 October 2013A number of renewable energy projects have been earmarked to receive government guarantees worth up to £33 billion ($53 billion) in total, the UK Treasury announced today.
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'Climate finance' investments fall in 2012 as 2°C target drifts further away
22 October 2013The amount of climate finance invested fell last year to $359 billion, a study has revealed, with private investments showing a marked slowdown.
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Samsung agrees finance for Canada's largest solar project
16 October 2013Samsung Renewable Energy has formed a partnership with investment firm Connor, Clark & Lunn Infrastructure and the native Canadian community Six Nations of the First River, to provide equity finance for Canada's largest solar energy project.
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Green Climate Fund elects new co-chairs
15 October 2013The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has appointed two new co-chairs that will lead the board's work to channel climate finance to developing countries.
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Voting begins in 14th annual Environmental Finance rankings
15 October 2013Voting has opened in the annual Environmental Finance market rankings – the largest and most closely watched survey of the world's environmental markets.
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Building sustainable finance in Nigeria
04 October 2013Independent adviser and former development bank employee Monika Veric gives her perspective on Nigeria's journey towards sustainability
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Norway to buy 30 million offsets to rescue 'stranded' CDM projects
03 October 2013Norway's ministry of finance has signed an agreement to buy up to 30 million carbon credits from projects that risk being discontinued because of low emissions prices.
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Stern backs new climate change economics study ahead of Paris 2015
24 September 2013Businesses and government leaders have launched a project to analyse impacts of climate change on the economy, backed by leading economist Nicholas Stern.
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Turning trash into cash
19 August 2013Investment in waste-to-energy projects has been stifled by perceived risks. But there are signs that the maturing sector is starting to become increasingly attractive. Elza Holmstedt Pell reports