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Carbon Valuation Post 2012
PwC's climate change team examine the thorny issues around valuing carbon assets on company balance sheets after 2012, in the face of considerable policy uncertainty.
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Can capital markets bridge the climate change financing gap?
It's generally accepted that there is an urgent need for large-scale financing to allow developing countries to mitigate and adapt to climate change. However, there is a yawning gap between the current level of climate change finance (approximately $8 billion per year) and even the conservative estimates by the World Bank for the amount required by developing countries ($90 billion-$210 billion; see footnote 1 at the end of this article).
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Europe's SRI market almost doubles, to €5 trillion, in two years
14 October 2010The value of the European sustainable and responsible investment (SRI) market has almost doubled, to €5 trillion ($7 trillion) over the last two years, according to the European Sustainable Investment Forum (Eurosif).
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UK faces £370bn low-carbon investment gap without GIB
14 October 2010The UK is facing a £370 billion ($591 billion) shortfall in available capital to transform into a low-carbon economy, according to a report by consultancy Ernst & Young, which sets out how the much-anticipated Green Investment Bank (GIB) could close the gap.
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Offshore wind drives clean energy asset financing to record
14 October 2010Investment in clean energy hit $37.9 billion in the third quarter, as a flood of cash into offshore wind infrastructure in the North Sea helped drive a record $32.8 billion in asset financing.
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Caparo, HaloSource raisings boost AIM clean-tech
14 October 2010There are signs of growing clean-tech activity on the UK's Alternative Investment Market (AIM), with wind company Caparo Energy joining the bourse on Tuesday, and a multi-million dollar raising for AIM-hopeful HaloSource.
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Google searching for an offshore wind connection
14 October 2010Google is to invest in a gigantic, $5 billion 'backbone' transmission project, which could connect up 6GW of offshore wind to the eastern US grid.
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Goldwind bounces back to HK listing
14 October 2010Four months after shelving its flotation plans, Chinese wind turbine manufacturer Goldwind has boosted its coffers by more than $1 billion, debuting on the Hong Kong stock exchange on Friday.
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$35bn to grow Korean renewables
14 October 2010South Korea will invest 40 trillion won ($35.4 billion) over five years to support renewable energy development, with funding from the public and private sector.
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Wind farm finance needs institutional investors – E.ON
14 October 2010More institutional investors are needed in wind power projects if the EU is to meet its ambitious target of generating 20% of its energy from renewable sources by 2020, said Mike Lewis, managing director Europe at E.ON Climate & Renewables.