Analysis

• Chicago and New York go head to head

  01 June 2009

  The Chicago Climate Futures Exchange (CCFE) is emerging as the trading platform of choice for the US carbon market as the federal government presses forward with the potential adoption of a federal cap-and-trade system. The Green Exchange, led by the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) and brokerage Evolution

• Growing on trees?

  01 June 2009

  Investing in forestry and timber assets is nothing new. But investors are increasingly seeing the attraction of more sustainable forestry investments. Tom Fitzherbert-Brockholes reports

• Where next for sustainable forestry investment?

  01 June 2009

  At present, sustainable forestry and timber investments are largely focused on gaining revenue from capital appreciation and timber-related products, with a small percentage looking to the voluntary carbon markets. The future could be quite different.

• A lack of interest?

  01 June 2009

  Given the banking sector's fundamental role in the global economy and the fundamental economic threats posed by environmental issues, equity analysts covering the sector might be expected to care about banks' environmental reporting. Not so, found Richard Slack

• Responding to recession

  01 June 2009

  The Low Carbon Accelerator has been put on the defensive by the economic gloom, but the venture capital fund's star companies are growing at a rate of knots. Jess McCabe reports

• Inflation, innovation and the carbon market

  01 June 2009

  An investment in carbon assets doesn't just confer the right to emit greenhouse gases – it also offers potential hedges against inflation and the failure of technological innovation, says Gerrity Lansing

• Transport starts to move

  01 June 2009

  President Obama's recent deal on fuel efficiency with the beleaguered US car industry is the latest evidence of the environmental pressures coming to bear on the transport sector. Sarbjit Nahal and Valéry Lucas-Leclin consider which stocks are set to benefit

• An emerging imperative

  01 June 2009

  Brazil's banks were early adopters of the Equator Principles – and Banco Itaú's Marcelo Battisti has become the first chairman of the group's steering committee to come from an emerging market insitution. He talks to Mark Nicholls

• Green shoots?

  01 May 2009

  Whisper it softly, but could the worst be over? The financial pages are full of stories suggesting that, according to one piece of data or another, the bottom of the recession may be in sight – or, at least, the precipitous declines over the past two quarters in pretty much every economic indicator may be levelling off.

• People moves this month

  01 May 2009

  Comings and goings in Environmental Finance this month