Archive

  • EPA looks to tighten timing on SO2 limits

    19 November 2009

    The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) wants to set more timely limits on sulphur dioxide (SO2) emissions.

  • How emissions markets should work

    01 November 2009

    As Congress grapples with the most complex emissions trading legislation ever tabled, the Environmental Markets Association has set out core principles that could help guide their deliberations, says Thaddeus Huetteman

  • Cast your vote in the Environmental Finance market survey

    22 October 2009

    Voting has opened in the Environmental Finance and Carbon Finance market survey – the most closely watched survey of the world's environmental markets.

  • Insurers aim to ease way for developing country renewables

    01 October 2009

    An online facility meant to make it easier for renewable energy projects in developing countries to access insurance has been launched by a group of insurers and the UN.

  • Ramping up REDD?

    01 October 2009

    Interest in projects that reduce deforestation is building in Asia – but substantial barriers remain. Hy Martin looks at the challenges faced by investors and developers

  • How to avoid 'rip-offsets'

    01 September 2009

    With carbon offsets likely to be central to any US carbon cap-and-trade system, Kenneth Ivanic suggests what buyers should be looking for

  • CME launches more SO2 contracts

    02 July 2009

    CME Group is to launch a new series of futures and options contracts based on sulphur dioxide (SO2) allowances in mid July.

  • Keeping a lid on costs

    01 July 2009

    The offset provisions of the Waxman-Markey climate and energy bill provide a crucial means to lower its costs – but the Senate would do well to improve upon them, says Lisa Jacobson

  • Sustainable timber fund gains €30m backing from EIB

    25 June 2009

    Dasos Capital's private equity timber fund has made its first close of €85 million ($119 million), following a pledge of €30 million from the European Investment Bank (EIB).

  • Investors focus on deforestation disclosure

    18 June 2009

    Investors are to call on companies to examine and disclose their role in tropical deforestation, via the Forest Footprint Disclosure Project (FFDP).