Archive

  • Braine takes reins at IETA

    03 December 2013

    The International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) has appointed Bruce Braine, a vice-president responsible for strategic policy analysis at American Electric Power, as its new chairman. He replaces David Hone, senior climate change adviser at Shell, who is stepping down after three years in the role.

  • Carbon Tracker appoints senior lawyer as first CEO

    03 December 2013

    Anthony Hobley, global head of sustainability and climate change at law firm Norton Rose Fulbright, is to become the first CEO of the Carbon Tracker Initiative.

  • COP19: boon or bust?

    27 November 2013

    The UN climate talks in Warsaw kept a 2015 agreement within grasp – but offers little for investors, at least in the near-term, finds Katie Kouchakji

  • COP Blog: Can the last CDM participant to leave the National Stadium please turn out the lights?

    18 November 2013

    At the end of the first week of ninth Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP9), it has become abundantly clear that despite the proliferation of agenda items related to the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and new market-based approaches, there is no sense of urgency to achieve progress in any of them.

  • IETA issues master agreement for California's carbon market

    02 October 2013

    The International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) has released its California Emissions Trading Master Agreement (CETMA) which aims to facilitate secondary market trading in the state's growing carbon market.

  • Uncertainty Down Under

    09 September 2013

    Investors and developers active in Australia's low-carbon sectors are facing months of uncertainty about how the new Coalition government's climate policy overhaul will affect them. Elza Holmstedt Pell reports

  • Asian investors 'eyeing African renewables' – report

    18 June 2013

    International investors are set to increasingly back renewables projects in Africa, with Asian investors leading the charge, a new report has claimed.

  • Taking the pulse of the voluntary market

    09 May 2013

    Mark Nicholls reports on the results of Carbon Finance's latest Voluntary Carbon Market Rankings – and finds growth and innovation, but some anxiety about oversupply