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Bracing for bubbles
07 October 2010Environmental technologies and markets are perhaps uniquely vulnerable to asset bubbles. Sophia Tickell and Alexa Clay examine why – and suggest what policy-makers and investors can do to help
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Putting a premium on education
07 October 2010Europe's weather risk sector is growing in volume and sophistication, but awareness and understanding remain an ongoing challenge. Charlotte Dudley reports
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Blazing a trail in China
07 October 2010China Industrial Bank was the first Chinese bank to sign the Equator Principles. Two years on, Jess McCabe reports on how it is implementing the environmental and social standards
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From promise to reality
07 October 2010It's a safe bet that industrialised world exchequers aren't going to deliver $100 billion a year in climate finance to developing countries by 2020. So where's the money going to come from? Michael Curley considers some options
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India's take on trading
07 October 2010India's imminent energy efficiency trading scheme offers a pragmatic approach to cutting carbon – and might be linked to international carbon markets. Matthew Gray and Shikha Bhasin explain
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Chinese finance on the march
06 October 2010Fresh from two trips to China to meet banks, insurers, regulators and policy-makers, UNEP Finance Initiative head Paul Clements-Hunt talks about his impressions as the country's finance sector marches towards sustainability
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States must, again, drive US climate action
06 October 2010The lack of federal action on climate change means that the effort must come, once more, from the states. Shanna Brownstein examines the tools they are already putting to work
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Keeping to contracts
06 October 2010What is it that environmental policy-makers don't understand about sticking to contracts, asks Mark Nicholls
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Riding a policy rollercoaster
06 October 2010Australia's off-again, on-again federal carbon policy may be difficult to follow, but local and corporate initiatives are steadily bubbling up. Jennifer Lauber Patterson surveys the landscape
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The end of the China Development Mechanism?
06 October 2010China still dominates the Clean Development Mechanism – but its low-carbon growth strategy is moving away from the international carbon market and towards domestic carbon pricing. Joshua Speckman reports