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Finding a path to REDD investment
05 July 2011How can finance be mobilised to protect the world's rainforests, in a climate of extreme policy uncertainty? Environmental Finance and Irbaris convened a panel of experts to try to find out. Mark Nicholls reports
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Shareholders fight back
30 June 2011Shareholders unhappy with how companies are performing on natural gas fracking, energy and climate issues are making their voices heard at annual general meetings, says Mindy Lubber from investor coalition Ceres
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The real climate change investment story
22 June 2011The recent survey of global investors' response to climate change was partial and misleading, says Julian Poulter
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The nature of the thing
21 June 2011Failure to distinguish between environmental instruments and the cash-settled contracts based on them could impose crippling costs, warn Christopher Berendt and Jeremy Weinstein
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Broadsides from the back benches
21 June 2011As chairman of an influential parliamentary committee, veteran Tory MP Tim Yeo has proved an effective critic of UK climate policy. He talks electricity market reform and emissions with Mark Nicholls
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Thinking globally, investing locally
16 June 2011M&A in the renewables sector is hotting up – but investors are cautious, crave policy certainty and, to a large degree, are staying close to home, says KPMG's Andy Cox
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Taking the carbon markets to Africa
14 June 2011There is no shortage of demand for African carbon credits – but drumming up supply remains challenging. Mark Nicholls reports on efforts to bring carbon finance to the continent
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Carbon trading – but not as you know it
10 June 2011With climate negotiations moving at glacial speed in Bonn, HSBC's Zoe Knight, Nick Robins and D. Saravanan look at how the evolution of the global economy is making traditional ways of regulating carbon increasingly anachronistic, requiring new thinking from policymakers to strike a global deal.
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10 years of the ESG effect
09 June 2011FTSE's David Harris argues that there is growing evidence that responsible investment indexes are influencing corporate behaviour and, in some cases, indicating outperformance
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Mining for climate solutions
02 June 2011John Drexhage argues that the mining and metals sector has plenty to contribute to the transition to a low-carbon economy
- Comment: The rumpus over SBTi's offsetting U-turn
- EU should create 'sustainability-linked green bond' label, says IEEFA
- Natural capital will become a fundamental component of investors' portfolios
- Rise of transition plans could remedy regulatory 'failure' to boost transition finance
- Jury still out on transition bond label
- IFC and T.Rowe Price pledge $150m to blue bond strategy
- Sustainable bond market continues to show signs of improvement in 2024
- Gabon's debt-for-nature swap 'still works' despite coup, LGIM says
- SBTi clarifies carbon credit stance amid staff unrest
- Nordea to close social bond fund after just over a year