Archive

  • Can next-generation biofuels deliver?

    01 November 2012

    EU politicians hope capping biofuels made from food crops will trigger a boom in advanced fuels. But is the technology ready to lead the next wave of growth, or will the EU's biofuels targets be missed? Peter Cripps investigates

  • Putting the onus on the producers

    12 October 2012

    Recycling rates in the US have stalled – and municipalities don't have the financial resources to kickstart them. It's time to hold producers to account, says Conrad MacKerron

  • The sustainable agriculture investment opportunity

    04 September 2012

    Demographics and economics are driving the transformation of the global agribusiness sector – offering investors a sustainable investment opportunity. Gabriela Grab Hartmann and Jürgen Siemer explain

  • Allianz's green power plan

    29 August 2012

    Institutional investors are being increasingly drawn to the stable, long-term returns offered by renewable energy generating assets. Elza Holmstedt Pell reports

  • The next good derivative?

    08 June 2012

    While putting a price on water is not a magic bullet for heading off the planet's looming water crisis, applying market principles can help us better allocate this most valuable resource. Richard Sandor and Murali Kanakasabai explain

  • Trickle-down economics

    16 May 2012

    The boom in unconventional oil and gas extraction has brought a host of environmental challenges, not least in wastewater treatment. But it presents an opportunity for VC-backed water treatment firms, says Tom Whitehouse

  • Making clean energy cheap

    03 May 2012

    It's long been the prescription of environmental economists that those who pollute should bear the costs of that pollution – that so-called environmental externalities should be borne not by society as a whole, but by those responsible for them.

  • Bridging the gap on water risk

    12 April 2012

    How should large companies and their investors consider, and communicate, water risk? Environmental Finance and Irbaris brought the two sides together to find out. Mark Nicholls reports

  • A blended approach to financing forests

    11 April 2012

    It is unlikely that the carbon markets, via a REDD mechanism, can deliver enough finance quickly enough to rapidly slow deforestation. Nick Oakes explains how blending additional revenue streams with carbon finance could be the answer

  • Reduce, reuse – and remanufacture?

    22 March 2012

    Interest in remanufacturing and recommerce is picking up, offering an environmental investment opportunity perfectly suited to straitened economic times, say Nicholas Morley and Tom Whitehouse