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  • New Forests registers project under California carbon market

    18 September 2014

    Forestry investment manager New Forests has registered its second project under California's carbon market.

  • World Bank sells options to stimulate methane reductions

    16 September 2014

    The World Bank is launching a novel financing mechanism to attract private sector capital to projects that prevent or reduce emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas.

  • MSCI launches low-carbon indexes

    16 September 2014

    MSCI has launched a set of low-carbon indexes, which have won the backing of major investors the Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund (AP4), Fonds de Reserve pour les Retraites (FRR) and Amundi.

  • Skystream raises funds to expand in US

    08 September 2014

    Skystream Markets, a provider of transaction services for Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs), has closed a funding round aimed at helping it expand in the US.

  • RGGI carbon prices remain high in latest auction

    08 September 2014

    A clearing price of $4.88 per short ton of carbon dioxide (CO2) was set in last week's auction of emission allowances by the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI).

  • EU energy and environmental reforms could see carbon price soar

    01 September 2014

    The price of allowances in the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) could rise almost four-fold to €23 ($30) per tonne of carbon dioxide (CO2) by 2030 if proposed energy and environmental reforms are implemented, according to Thomson Reuters.

  • Chile eyes carbon tax

    28 August 2014

    Chile is considering becoming the second country in Latin America to introduce a carbon tax, in a move that could provide a further boost to its rapidly growing renewables sector.

  • UK GIB, Sumitomo and Bayerische Landesbank back £192m gasification plant

    21 August 2014

    A £192 million waste-to-energy gasification plant has become the first in the UK to attract long-term project finance, in a deal that could pave the way for similar transactions.

  • Stranded assets debate won't lead to large-scale divestment, says analyst

    19 August 2014

    The stranded assets debate is not causing many investors to divest because the implementation of a global emissions cap by governments is viewed as "very unlikely", according to a responsible investment analyst at NASDAQ OMX.

  • Carbon Tracker identifies potential stranded assets in oil majors

    15 August 2014

    Projected capital expenditure by Total and ExxonMobil is more heavily dependent on high oil prices than that of other oil majors, according to the Carbon Tracker Initiative (CTI), a financial think tank.