Archive

  • Biofuel firm sends pork fat flying

    11 November 2010

    A biofuel plant in Louisiana is turning chicken fat and pork lard into renewable diesel, in what its joint venture partners say is the first commercial-scale advanced biofuels facility in the US.

  • Lessons from Nagoya

    11 November 2010

    The biodiversity agreement in Nagoya is to be welcomed – but a dose of realism on financing is well overdue, says Mark Nicholls

  • Banking on biodiversity

    09 November 2010

    Biodiversity is low on the radar screen of financial institutions, or even non-existent. But, in the wake of the Nagoya Protocol, financiers are awakening to a world where environmental and social phenomena are increasingly becoming financially material, say Ivo Mulder and Jessica Boucher

  • Making timberland investment a safe bet

    09 November 2010

    Valuing timberland is a complex business and, with new environmental revenue streams, becoming more so. Steve Palmer explains how sophisticated software is coming to the rescue

  • Scarce, and getting scarcer

    09 November 2010

    Could the looming scarcity of so-called rare metals put the brakes on the clean energy revolution – or generate new opportunities for recyclers? Lydia Heida reports

  • People moves

    09 November 2010

    The latest appointments at Globalance Capital, Swiss Banking Group, Environmental Financial Products, GE, Scottish Widows Investment Partnership and more.

  • How cellphones can help save the planet

    08 November 2010

    The lessons of the mobile phone revolution should be applied to the fight against climate change, according to the International Finance Corporation's new climate head. Mark Nicholls reports

  • Coming off the tracks?

    08 November 2010

    The collapse of comprehensive climate and energy legislation means that US utilities face what some are describing as a 'train wreck' of environmental regulation. Gloria Gonzalez reports on how they are investing amid uncertainty

  • Painting the bond market green

    08 November 2010

    The emerging environmental bond market is generating keen interest – but how can this interest be translated into issuance? Charlotte Dudley reports

  • Enel Green Power fails to light up Milan, Madrid bourses

    04 November 2010

    Enel Green Power (EGP) made a less than stellar debut on the Milan and Madrid bourses today, following a sluggish €2.6 billion ($3.7 billion) initial public offering (IPO) in which parent company Italian utility giant Enel was forced to drop the price to entice reluctant institutional investors.