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Fuel cell inside
01 September 2007With the much-vaunted hydrogen economy still on the distant horizon, the fuel cell sector has fallen out of favour with environmental investors. But Ceres Power is offering a different fuel cell play. Elisabeth Jeffries reports
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Rethinking risk
01 September 2007As this issue of Environmental Finance went to press on 21 August, the world's investors seemed to be holding their breath. The US Fed's move at the end of the previous week, cutting its discount rate by 0.5 percentage points, had, for the time being at least, put the brakes on stock market slides. But, with continuing anxiety in the credit markets, the consensus is that more volatility is around the corner.
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A challenge to Congress
01 September 2007The US Congress has the rare opportunity to integrate energy and environmental policy. Lisa Jacobson suggests how it should approach the climate change element
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A question of design
01 September 2007While new emissions trading schemes are under consideration in Australasia and the US, the debate over their efficacy shows no sign of abating. Julian Turecek presents the case for the defence
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The green energy reckoning
01 September 2007Andrew Nourafshan explains how the Green-e programme has tackled concerns over environmental integrity and double-counting in the US renewable energy certificate market – and how it is expanding into emissions
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Hanging in the balance?
01 September 2007Progress towards the low-carbon economy has been impressive, but business needs the right signals from government – and they both need to work together, says Steve Howard
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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.