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  • Backloading failure could 'finish EU ETS until further notice' – Jefferies

    16 April 2013

    Carbon prices could rise to €7 ($9.16) if today's crunch vote on a quick fix to the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) passes – but if it fails, "the market is essentially finished until further notice", an analyst has warned.

  • UKSIF finds new Shepherd

    15 April 2013

    The UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF) has appointed Simon Howard as its new chief executive.

  • Asset manager raises £35m for wind investments

    15 April 2013

    A UK-based alternative asset management firm has raised £35 million ($53.7 million) in a first close for its inaugural wind energy income fund.

  • Geothermal sector hopes for US incentive boost

    15 April 2013

    The US geothermal sector is set to receive a boost if the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) favourably interprets recent changes to the production tax credit (PTC), an investor has predicted.

  • Clean energy investment slumps to four-year low in Q1 – BNEF

    15 April 2013

    Investments in clean energy tanked to a four-year low in the first quarter of this year, driven by sharp falls in technology costs and setbacks in key markets such as the US and China, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF).

  • BioAmber aims to raise $128m in IPO

    12 April 2013

    Biochemicals company BioAmber has set the price range for its planned public listing, amid an upswing of initial public offering (IPO) activity in the clean-tech market.

  • Developers sceptical about Munich Re's geothermal project coverage

    12 April 2013

    Munich Re is trying to remove a major obstacle to the financing of geothermal projects – the drilling risks that have made potential investors skittish about the sector – but developers are sceptical about the coverage.

  • The EU's backloading vote: what's at stake

    11 April 2013

    Ahead of next week's European Parliament vote on plans to resuscitate the drowning EU ETS, Sonja van Renssen explains what is at stake

  • Obama seeks 40% clean-tech spending boost in 2014

    11 April 2013

    US President Barack Obama has proposed a budget that would see a dramatic rise of funding for clean technologies next year, while eliminating $4 billion of annual fossil fuel subsidies.

  • GIB emerges as main Green Deal Finance Co backer

    11 April 2013

    The UK's Green Investment Bank (GIB) provided more than half of the £244 million ($375 million) in financing secured recently by the Green Deal Finance Company (GDFC), it emerged today, with the UK government providing another £50 million separately.