Analysis

• The role of the reinsurers

  06 April 2011

  Climate change is already changing the patterns of extreme weather around the world – posing challenges for the insurance sector, but also opening up market opportunities, says Peter Höppe

• Materiality: a dialogue of the deaf?

  05 April 2011

  Why do investors care so little about most metrics of corporate sustainability? It all comes down to financial materiality, explains Rory Sullivan

• Breaking down barriers

  04 April 2011

  The growing emphasis on market-based incentives to spur low-carbon investment is creating a need for specialists with a unique combination of skills – and the world's leading universities need to develop similarly interdisciplinary programmes to meet the needs of the environmental finance marketplace, says Mark DeAngelis

• Waiting on supply

  04 April 2011

  IETA's Simone Ruiz set out one blueprint for green bonds at the recent inaugural Environmental Bonds conference in London. Mark Nicholls reports

• California's carbon caveat emptor

  04 April 2011

  Rules designed to protect the environmental integrity of California's carbon offset programme create unmanageable risks for investors that will reduce its efficiency, say Cameron Prell and Adam Raphaely

• How loan guarantees help

  04 April 2011

  Jonathan Silver explains how the US Department of Energy's loan guarantee programme is supporting clean energy technologies, creating jobs and reducing emissions

• Going, going, gone...

  17 March 2011

  European Energy Exchange's Tim Greenwood says Europe's carbon exchanges are looking forward to increased auctioning and new overseas markets, following closure in the wake of carbon allowance thefts Christopher Cundy reports

• Moving green bonds into the mainstream

  07 March 2011

  Environmental bonds are seen as vital in attracting the investment needed to fund a low-carbon economy. But how can they be transformed from a niche product into a mainstream investment option, asks Nick Oakes

• Seeing the forest products for the trees

  07 March 2011

  Investors are swinging behind the Forest Footprint Disclosure Project as it seeks to shine a light on the risks companies face from 'forest commodity' supply chains. Mark Nicholls reports

• Giving credit to climate risk

  05 March 2011

  Michael Wilkins is leading the effort at rating agency Standard & Poor's is to factor climate risk into credit scores – a breakthrough for the integration of environmental factors into the investment mainstream. Mark Nicholls reports