Analysis

• Seizing the CCS opportunity

  08 September 2011

  Carbon capture and storage presents a myriad of unique challenges – but regulators and policy-makers are laying the foundations for a multi-billion-dollar global industry, say Brian Downie and Bree Miechel

• Taking the plunge

  06 September 2011

  Investors and financiers are gradually becoming comfortable with investing in Europe's offshore wind industry. But will investment flow fast enough? Mark Nicholls reports

• Google's latest search

  30 August 2011

  Google has become one of corporate America's largest investors in renewable energy. Gloria Gonzalez investigates

• Cooking the books

  23 August 2011

  Are investors in China's solar sector at risk of accounting fraud? Joshua Speckman investigates

• Investing for sustainable development

  28 July 2011

  From the UN PRI to the Equator Principles, the standards meant to make investment decisions more sustainable are too weak to work, argues the IIED's Emma Blackmore

• Making an impact

  27 July 2011

  With growing amounts of private capital being directed towards sustainable development, great claims are being made for impact investing. But definitions are unclear and many institutional investors remain unwilling to engage. Graham Cooper reports

• Raters under review

  26 July 2011

  The Global Initiative for Sustainability Ratings aims to do for ratings what the Global Reporting Initiative did for sustainability – and forge consensus from cacophony. Mark Nicholls reports

• Environmental Finance Awards 2011: Saluting the leaders

  26 July 2011

  Compared to the previous two years, we had a much healthier roster of transactions to assess for this year's awards issue – with the IPO market especially much more active than in the recent past.

• Putting principles into practice

  26 July 2011

  ING's Leonie Schreve explains how the Equator Principles are spreading throughout the Dutch bank

• Dan Adler: Cleaning up in California

  26 July 2011

  California's aggressive clean energy and carbon targets put it at the forefront of US efforts to tackle climate change – and Clean Energy Fund president Dan Adler is right in the middle of the action. He talks to Gloria Gonzalez