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'Game-changing' corporate reporting rules clear key hurdle
27 February 2014EU proposals to force large companies to report environmental metrics were hailed by a leading investor as "a game-changer for corporate transparency", after they took a step closer to becoming law.
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CDM must stop verifier exodus, warns new Executive Board member
26 February 2014The Clean Development Mechanism will struggle to recover if verifiers continue to leave the market, a new member of its oversight board has warned.
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RGGI proceeds provide $700m for low-carbon energy projects
25 February 2014The nine US states participating in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) have invested more than $700 million of proceeds from the programme to curb energy use and reduce carbon emissions.
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Speed up EU ETS reforms or risk lost decade: Climate Change Capital
25 February 2014The EU's Emissions Trading System risks suffering a "lost decade" unless policymakers bring forward plans to combat the oversupply of allowances dogging the market, Climate Change Capital has warned.
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Japan overtakes UK in attractiveness for renewables investment
25 February 2014Japan is now more attractive than the UK for renewable energy investments, according to consultants EY.
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World's first gas-based CCS project wins UK government support
24 February 2014The UK government has agreed to fund an engineering and design study for what could become the world's first carbon capture and storage (CCS) project at a gas-fired power plant.
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Energy efficiency, cities, and the Clean Trillion
14 February 2014$36 trillion in clean energy investment is needed to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. Ten cities are stepping up to the plate and investors are likely to follow, argues Brandon Smithwood
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The challenges of financing offshore wind
11 February 2014With utilities struggling to finance offshore wind farms, institutional investors are being asked to step in. What financing challenges are facing the sector and what are the developments helping facilitate cheaper capital, asks Charles Yates
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70% rise in emissions covered by cap-and-trade since EU launch, says report
06 February 2014The volume of global emissions covered by emissions trading systems (ETS) is set to rise 70% by 2015 since the world's first carbon market was launched in the EU, a report has forecast.
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The European Commission is taking a big gamble with the CDM
05 February 2014Gareth Phillips says the European Commission is wrong to exclude international emission reduction credits from the EU carbon market after 2021.