Archive

  • Carbon Trust rethinking low-carbon VC fund

    01 December 2006

    The UK's Carbon Trust has gone back to the drawing board with its plans for a venture capital (VC) fund to invest in the low-carbon and clean energy technology sectors. The trust had hoped to raise up to £75 million ($147 million) into its Carbon Trust Investments Clean Energy Fund, which it planned to list on the London Stock Exch­ange's Alternative Investment Market (AIM), but the listing was pulled in late October.

  • International Power breezes into renewables

    01 December 2006

    Electricity generator International Power is to acquire wind farms with total generating capacity of 436MW from UK-based money manager Christofferson Robb & Company (CRC).

  • The economics of risk

    01 December 2006

    The Stern review has energised the climate change debate – and attracted extensive criticism. Nicholas Stern defends its findings

  • Commission to the rescue of EU ETS

    01 December 2006

    Doubts over the future of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) have eased, after the European Commission slashed proposed carbon dioxide (CO2) caps for its second phase.

  • Expansion on the cards for EU ETS

    01 December 2006

    Areview of the future of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) is to consider expanding the scheme to include additional sectors and greenhouse gases. It is also considering replacing the current system of country-by-country caps on emissions with a single, Europe-wide cap.

  • France proposes carbon import tax

    01 December 2006

    The EU should impose an additional tax on goods imported from countries that fail to join a post-2012 climate agreement, according to French prime minister Dominique de Villepin.

  • Best in show

    01 December 2006

    Companies pre-eminent in disclosing climate-sensitive information are rewarded with a place in the Climate Leadership Index. Christopher Cundy speaks to the leaders and asks what the accolade brings to their businesses

  • The drama unfolds

    01 December 2006

    It's been a dramatic few weeks or so, in the debate around climate change in general, and emissions trading in particular. The period began, on 30 October, with the much-anticipated release of the Stern Review. This 575-page report, commissioned by the UK Treasury and written by a former World Bank chief economist, has transformed the debate about the economics of climate change.

  • Progress, just about

    01 December 2006

    As the warnings from the climate scientists become more high-pitched, the talks on extending the international climate regime continue at a low drone. So what comes next? Mark Nicholls reports from Nairobi

  • Leading the way

    01 December 2006

    Few details have yet emerged as to how California's regulators are to implement the state's ground-breaking climate change legislation. Jason Patrick considers some of the issues they – and market participants – face