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Hansen calls on UniCredit to halt coal financing
11 May 2012Leading climatologist James Hansen has called on Italy's UniCredit to halt the "unnecessary practice" of financing coal-fired power plants, specifically the TEŠ 6 lignite-fired power plant in Slovenia.
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The next phase
11 May 2012Josué Tanaka is leading a new phase of the EBRD's sustainable energy lending – and its push into North Africa. He speaks to Christopher Cundy
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Federal support for CCS needed, despite EPA regs
10 May 2012Without the support of federal subsidies, new coal-fired power plants with carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technology are unlikely to be built in the US – despite new environmental regulations that seem to benefit such technology, according to a Bloomberg Government report.
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Sustainable biomass a major risk for power stations – Drax
10 May 2012Ensuring the sustainability of biomass fuel is "the biggest unquantified risk" facing Drax, operator of the UK's largest coal power plant, according to its head of environment.
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South-east Asia clean energy fund nears first close
10 May 2012Newly-formed clean energy investor Armstrong Asset Management is nearing a $66 million first close for a fund to invest in small-scale renewable energy and 'resource efficiency' projects in South-east Asia.
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Microsoft carbon neutrality goal would cost below $10m
10 May 2012Microsoft would need to pay less than $10 million a year if it were to meet its new goal of becoming carbon neutral entirely through carbon offsets – a fraction of the IT giant's $5.1 billion in profits for the last quarter.
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Taking sustainability into the classroom
10 May 2012Malik Naeem and Mark Neal summarise the findings of the first region-wide survey of sustainability in business education in the Asia-Pacific region
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Investors call for funding details as UK announces green bank legislation
09 May 2012The UK government is to introduce legislation in the coming year to establish its long-planned Green Investment Bank (GIB), but investors and environmentalists have called for clarity over how it will be funded.
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Citi analysts favour less-frequent corporate reporting
09 May 2012Abandoning quarterly reporting would help analysts better understand issues that drive longer-term company valuations, according to a slim majority of Citi equity analysts.
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DNV acquires sustainability consultancy
08 May 2012DNV has bought Two Tomorrows Group, a UK-based sustainability consultancy, for an undisclosed sum.