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UBS establishes clean-tech, renewables banking group
07 October 2010Swiss banking group UBS has formed a global renewable energy and clean-tech group, bringing together bankers from its technology, power and utilities and industrial teams.
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US utilities to meet clean energy targets with coal, nuclear?
07 October 2010Nuclear and cleaner coal would be considered eligible sources in an alternate clean energy standard proposed in the US Senate last week.
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Climate change to become 'strategic priority' at IFC – group head
07 October 2010The International Finance Corporation (IFC) is to make climate change a "top strategic priority", according to the head of its newly-formed climate business group, as the development bank promises to treble its climate-related investments to $3 billion.
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US sustainable business market seen doubling to $60bn by 2014
07 October 2010Spending on energy efficiency measures, emissions reductions, clean-tech R&D and carbon management by US corporations is set to double by 2014 – with some areas of sustainability spending seeing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 50%, according to research firm Verdantix.
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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