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The finance starts to flow
17 December 2010Policy uncertainty has sent a chill through renewable energy markets in 2010, but financing, at least, is starting to thaw. Jess McCabe reports
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Trading truncated
17 December 2010The regulatory omens don't look good for the major US emissions markets, and the economic downturn has dried up liquidity in the regional ones. Gloria Gonzalez reports on a gloomy year in SO2 and NOx
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California dreaming
17 December 2010Trading is under way in California's nascent carbon market – which could form a basis for EPA carbon regulation across the US, say Stephen MacKenzie and Thomas Cape
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Leading lights named in survey of environmental markets
16 December 2010Environmental Finance and Carbon Finance – two of the leading global publications covering environmental markets – have named the winners in their annual market survey.
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2010: deadly and expensive
02 December 2010Catastrophes such as earthquakes and the explosion of BP's oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico caused $222 billion of damage in 2010, more than triple the losses suffered in 2009.
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Developing countries could become uninsurable - report
02 December 2010Insurance companies must do more to act on climate change or risk developing countries becoming uninsurable, says UK-based environmental think tank Forum for the Future.
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Deutsche Bank sets out low cost, low carbon energy plan for the US
18 November 2010Deutsche Bank has outlined a low-energy plan for the US, which sees a mix of natural gas, renewables and nuclear replacing old coal plants to achieve a 44% reduction in carbon dioxide by 2030.
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US renewables lobby calls for two more years of cash grants
18 November 2010The US renewable energy sector does not need the pivotal cash grant programme to become permanent, with a two-year extension sufficient to help the industry survive the economic downturn.
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Making timberland investment a safe bet
09 November 2010Valuing timberland is a complex business and, with new environmental revenue streams, becoming more so. Steve Palmer explains how sophisticated software is coming to the rescue
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US clean energy prospects murky after Republican victory
04 November 2010A day after a landslide Republican victory in the US House of Representatives, President Barack Obama pledged to work with his opponents to find common ground on energy issues, but exactly what that means for the clean energy sector remains unclear.