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  • Ingenious plans £160m fund IPO that will 'tap into energy efficiency opportunity'

    17 January 2014

    Ingenious today revealed plans to raise £160 million ($263 million) by listing a fund that invests in both renewables and energy efficiency, as its sponsor claimed the strategy could outperform rivals that focus on a single technology.

  • SolarCity to offer asset-backed securities to the public

    16 January 2014

    SolarCity plans to follow its issue of bonds backed by solar panels by offering similar products online to retail investors.

  • Energy storage market 'set for massive boom'

    15 January 2014

    The global market for grid-connected energy storage is "set to explode" in the coming years, driven by the US, Germany and Japan, a report has claimed.

  • A make-or-break year?

    12 January 2014

    The Warsaw climate talks have done just enough to keep a 2015 deal to succeed the Kyoto Protocol within grasp. But while there were never high expectations of this year's Conference of the Parties to the UN climate convention (COP19), 2014 is set to be a critical year.

  • ICE loses carbon trading market share to EEX in 2013

    09 January 2014

    EEX's emissions trading volumes continued to grow in 2013, as it won market share from the dominant carbon exchange ICE Futures Europe.

  • Backloading to drive '15% global carbon market growth in 2014'

    08 January 2014

    The value of the global carbon markets will rise this year for the first time since 2011 as a result of an agreement to boost the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), analysts have forecast.

  • A guide through the energy efficiency maze

    07 January 2014

    Steven Fawkes' new book aims to explain the intricacies of the complicated but increasingly important world of energy efficiency. His work is reviewed by Stephen Hibbert

  • Tianjin sells first carbon permits at half price of Guangdong and Beijing

    02 January 2014

    China's fifth pilot carbon market has been launched in Tianjin, where emitters could pay significantly lower prices to emit one tonne of carbon than in Guangdong and Beijing.

  • 'Innovative' asset-backed securities raise $100m

    24 December 2013

    A company that invests in sustainable infrastructure projects has issued its first asset-backed securities, in an "innovative" transaction that has raised $100 million.

  • 2014: A better year for carbon?

    19 December 2013

    After what has arguably been the toughest ever year in the world's largest carbon markets, leading analysts expect prices to pick up in the EU and California to continue to make steady progress. Elza Holmstedt Pell reports