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Impax eyeing agriculture and food investment themes
16 May 2012Environmental investment specialist Impax Asset Management plans to launch agriculture and food strategies or funds, as it seeks to exploit growing interest among investors in the 'resource scarcity' theme.
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ADB raises $339m in second clean energy bond issue
16 May 2012The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has raised the equivalent of $339 million from its second sale of clean energy bonds, the proceeds of which will be directed to renewable energy and energy efficiency projects.
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Rio+20 talks 'very helpful' for UN climate talks – Figueres
15 May 2012Sustainable development talks at next month's Rio+20 summit are set to be "very helpful" for the UN climate change negotiations, said Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
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Solar industry sees Romney threat to key tax break
15 May 2012The US investment tax credit (ITC) for solar energy could be in danger of being repealed under a Mitt Romney administration, experts said.
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New Jersey solar REC market set to dim further
15 May 2012Solar experts see no end in sight for the oversupply of solar power that has caused a pricing collapse in the New Jersey solar renewable energy credit (SREC) market, barring a much-discussed legislative fix that has yet to come to pass.
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Protocol for community-scale GHG emissions launched
15 May 2012A protocol to measure greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at the community level has been released in an effort to establish a single standard for measuring emissions from cities
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Tax breaks proposed to spur UK sustainability
14 May 2012New tax incentives to boost the UK's low level of personal savings and direct more of these savings into activities that yield social and environmental benefits are called for in a new report from the Green Alliance.
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Under a cloud
14 May 2012The EU's move to cap aviation emissions is under fire from all sides. Christopher Cundy asks if the system can survive the onslaught
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Funding a low-carbon future
14 May 2012Will Oulton, editor of Investment Opportunities for a Low-Carbon World, reflects on opportunities for investors in environmental businesses and the need for more 'patient capital'
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Germany's solar subsidy cuts rejected, lower cuts expected
11 May 2012Germany's solar industry is likely to benefit from a Bundesrat vote today to delay subsidy cuts, as long as negotiations are not drawn out, say industry experts.