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US renewables lobby calls for two more years of cash grants
18 November 2010The US renewable energy sector does not need the pivotal cash grant programme to become permanent, with a two-year extension sufficient to help the industry survive the economic downturn.
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End of term
18 November 2010The US mid-term elections have thrown US climate and energy policies into even more disarray than they were in before. Gloria Gonzalez asks what they mean for carbon trading, renewables and emissions regulation
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International carbon markets 2010
15 November 2010What effect will the Cancun climate talks have on the global markets? Download this special report from Environmental Finance. (Subscription required)
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US to raid loan guarantees to save clean energy grants?
11 November 2010The US midterm elections may have dealt a fatal blow to the federal cash grant and loan guarantee programmes for the clean energy sector, and financiers and developers are cool on a plan to sacrifice one programme to save the other.
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IEA predicts $5.7tr of renewables investment by 2035
11 November 2010$5.7 trillion must be invested in renewables by 2035, even under the International Energy Agency's more conservative forecast – which would still result in global warming of 3.5°C. In 2009, $115 billion was invested in renewables, by comparison.
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UK's green bank needs 'quick wins'
11 November 2010The UK's proposed Green Investment Bank (GIB) should focus on "quick wins" and offer, for example, financial products that reduce the cost of mezzanine debt for offshore wind projects, according to a leading investment banker.
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Copenhagen timidity cost $1tr – IEA
11 November 2010The weak agreement reached at last year's Copenhagen climate talks has added $1 trillion to the cost of keeping global warming within 2°C, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Tuesday.
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'Grim picture' for environmental investing set to brighten?
11 November 2010Institutional investors are risk averse, time-poor and "carbon and climate fatigued", making it difficult to generate interest in environmentally-orientated investing, according to a leading investment consultant.
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Czech solar revisions spark investor uncertainty
11 November 2010The Czech Republic has slashed solar incentives in a bid to curb rising electricity prices, however a series of new taxes imposed on power generators has deepened investor uncertainty, observers say.
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SRI investment growth outpaces wider US market
11 November 2010Growth in socially responsible and sustainable investments (SRI) has substantially outpaced the broader US market, despite the economic recession, according to the latest bi-annual study from the Social Investment Forum (SIF).