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Taking responsibility
01 September 2007The first report on the implementation of the Principles for Responsible Investment reveals dramatic progress in some areas – but less in others. Mark Nicholls reports
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From the Street to the Hill
01 September 2007What do you do after a stellar Wall Street career, if you're too young just to play golf? For Jon Anda, the answer is to join Environmental Defense and lobby Washington for an emissions market with teeth. He talks to Mark Nicholls
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The banks breeze in
01 September 2007The dramatic growth in renewable energy generation is being increasingly financed by the capital markets. Jess McCabe reports on how investors and bankers are coming to love green energy
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US Congress poised for energy, climate breakthrough
01 July 2007Hopes are high that the US Congress could pass far-reaching energy and environmental legislation in the autumn, following changes of heart from key representatives, and plans for two comprehensive Senate bills tackling greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
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Leaf float raises £200m for North American renewables
01 July 2007EEA Fund Management and Shaw Capital have raised £200 million ($403 million) to invest in North American renewable energy projects through London's Alternative Investment Market (AIM) market.
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US firms underestimating shareholder interest in CR
01 July 2007US corporations underestimate the importance placed on corporate responsibility (CR) by shareholders, according to a survey by Thomson Financial.
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Calvert powers into alt energy
01 July 2007Socially responsible fund manager Calvert has launched a Global Alternative Energy Fund that will invest directly in renewable energy companies (solar, wind geothermal, biofuel, hydrogen and biomass), related technologies and the energy efficiency sector.
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Wal-mart goes solar
01 July 2007Wal-Mart has signed deals with three solar firms to supply and finance photovoltaic solar cells, generating an estimated 20,000MWh/year, to be installed on 22 of its buildings in California and Hawaii.
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Finance sector in the dark on biodiversity risks
01 July 2007The financial sector has a long way to go to understand the rising risks posed by biodiversity loss, according to the author of a report on the subject for the IUCN-World Conservation Union. More work particularly needs to be done to make the link between loss of biodiversity and financial impacts, he said.
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Swiss Re bids to boost cat bond trading
01 July 2007Swiss Re has started indexing the performance of catastrophe (cat) bonds in a bid to increase the transparency and encourage secondary trading of the rapidly growing asset class.