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Environmental liabilities go to market
01 May 2008Greg Rogers considers how market-based valuation of environmental liabilities will begin to impact business mergers and acquisitions
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Building the investment case
01 May 2008A new report from IUCN and Shell calls for the creation of a 'biodiversity business facility' to help build a market – and the more active participation of the environmental finance community, says Francis Vorheis
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A climate change share price boost?
01 May 2008Does making a commitment to tackling carbon emissions translate into a share-price premium? Paul Bowden and Stefan Altenschmidt explain a new index that attempts to find out
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The biofuels baby
01 May 2008Eighteen months ago, they were expected to save the planet. Now, they are going to starve it to death. The crescendo of criticism that biofuels have come in for in recent months has become deafening.
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Another look at additionality
01 May 2008Eron Bloomgarden and Mark Trexler argue for a top-down approach to assessing carbon offset project additionality
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EU allowance delays threaten 'cascade of defaults'
01 May 2008An ongoing delay in the issuance of EU allowances (EUAs) to emitters in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) could lead to "mass-scale default" in the EU emissions market, market participants have warned.
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Behind the numbers
01 May 2008Statistics can obscure as much as they illuminate. Ivo Knoepfel and Gordon Hagart caution that the rash of numbers showing the growth of socially responsible and sustainable investments should be treated with caution
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Cleaning up the energy sector
01 May 2008The credit crisis, likely carbon caps and a new president will all impact on the US renewables market. But, as Michael Eckhart tells Christopher Cundy, the industry's future remains very bright
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Opening the books.
01 May 2008Corporate responsibility reporting is getting deeper and broader – by and large. Paul Scott reviews trends in corporate disclosure
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Picking up speed
01 May 2008Richard Boddington and Simon Luby examine how trends in wind farm financing have evolved as the market has entered the mainstream