Analysis

• A tough environment

  04 March 2011

  A crowded and competitive market is good news for buyers of environmental insurance, with prices under pressure and innovation on the rise. Gloria Gonzalez reports

• Acting on its principles

  14 February 2011

  Emerging markets private equity fund Actis is placing ESG analysis and risk management at the heart of its investment processes – and is hoping to put a financial number on its effects. Mark Nicholls reports

• On the rebound

  09 February 2011

  The easing of the global recession has helped to stabilise the voluntary carbon market while regulatory developments, most notably in California, have prompted an uptick in interest. Charlotte Dudley reports

• Cleaning up California

  04 February 2011

  Jerry Brown – 'Governor Moonbeam' – is back in charge in California, with a clean energy agenda that is set to lead the US. Felicity Carus reports

• The beginning of the end of Kyoto?

  04 February 2011

  The Cancún conference will be remembered for bringing the international climate talks back from the brink of disaster. But did it also seal the demise of the Kyoto Protocol? Christopher Cundy reports

• Sending out the right signals

  04 February 2011

  Ole Beier Sørenson says investors were reassured that Cancún kept the UN climate talks on the road – but they need clearer signals from policy-makers if finance is to flow

• Solving the permanence conundrum

  04 February 2011

  Effective and affordable risk management is vital to unlock investment into forest carbon, say Eron Bloomgarden and Claire Jahns

• Time to send offsetting into retirement?

  24 January 2011

  Carbon offsetting has received a mixed press in recent years – but switching from carbon credits to allowances could help restore its credibility, argues Jane Burston

• California puts the brakes on emissions

  19 January 2011

  The same elections that knocked carbon trading off the US federal agenda gave the green light to a comprehensive carbon cap-and-trade programme in California. Gloria Gonzalez reports

• Forging a new path

  14 January 2011

  South Korea is investing billions of dollars in an effort to reorientate its economy towards "green growth". Joshua Speckman reports on an experiment without precedent