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  • DJSI aligns climate risk questions with CDP

    18 March 2013

    RobecoSAM is to partially coordinate its sustainability research with CDP, in an effort to reduce the burden faced by listed companies in providing sustainability data to research providers.

  • Silver Spring's shares soar after IPO

    14 March 2013

    Investors jumped at the opportunity to buy shares in Silver Spring Networks on Wednesday, driven by a rosy outlook for its smart-grid products.

  • Shell tops SIN List for use of dangerous chemicals

    14 March 2013

    Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell has topped a new ranking of listed companies that produce or import potentially hazardous chemicals in Europe.

  • Mitsubishi among victims of FTSE4Good review

    11 March 2013

    Mitsubishi Corporation is among four companies dropped from the FTSE4Good index family, while 20 new firms have been added to the environmental, social and governance (ESG)-focused indexes.

  • Forest risk rises

    11 March 2013

    The number of companies reporting to the Forest Footprint Disclosure project has broken through the 100 barrier. But with sectors such as oil and gas largely shunning the initiative, what can be done to raise awareness around forest-risk commodities? Peter Cripps reports

  • EFET launches standard contract for wood pellet trade

    07 March 2013

    A standard contract for wood pellets has been launched in Europe in a move to establish a traded market, but traders say demand is currently too low for activity to rise substantially.

  • AB InBev environmental efforts yield $500m

    07 March 2013

    Anheuser-Busch InBev generated additional revenues of $420 million from recycling waste streams and saved $92 million from more efficient energy and water use since 2009, the brewing giant has claimed.

  • Clean-tech is dead, long live clean-tech

    05 March 2013

    Many clean-tech venture investors might have struck out – but market veterans are reinventing themselves, shifting up the finance spectrum and refocusing on proven technologies. Mark Nicholls reports

  • GCCSI opens Beijing office

    04 March 2013

    The Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute (GCCSI) has opened an office in China and signed a memorandum of understanding with one of the country's biggest oil and gas companies.

  • Continental bows to investor pressure on gas flaring

    01 March 2013

    Continental Resources, one of the largest oil producers in North Dakota's Bakken region, has committed to reduce natural gas flaring from its well sites to "as close to zero percent flaring as possible".