Analysis

  • The billion-dollar question

    05 October 2012

    The numbers are certainly eye-catching – but what do US banks' environmental investment goals mean for how they do business, and for the ability of the low-carbon economy to raise finance? Gloria Gonzalez and Mark Nicholls report

  • After the drought

    05 October 2012

    This summer's heat and drought has hit US crop yields hard – and it has spurred interest in weather risk management from the agricultural sector. Elza Holmstedt Pell reports

  • Forging alliances: green growth and public-private finance

    05 October 2012

    Thomas Kerr explains how the Green Growth Action Alliance aims to help emerging economies tap private sector low-carbon investment

  • Vestas in the eye of the storm

    02 October 2012

    Talks of a tie-up between Vestas and Mitsubishi gave hope to investors in the beleaguered turbine maker – but a lack of progress in the talks is raising questions about its future. Elza Holmstedt Pell reports

  • Drumming up debt

    02 October 2012

    With banks reluctant to lend, financiers are hatching fresh plans to attract debt into renewable energy projects. Christopher Cundy reports

  • EDITORIAL: The investment case for a pristine Arctic

    02 October 2012

    It is one of the supreme ironies of global warming: as the Arctic ice recedes in the face of rapidly rising temperatures at the poles, so the opportunity opens up for the extraction of potentially enormous reserves of oil and gas.

  • Time to scale up action on biodiversity

    28 September 2012

    The World Business Council's Peter Bakker makes the case for business action on biodiversity protection

  • A flexible approach to finance

    27 September 2012

    Embedding sustainability considerations into business planning involves flexible thinking within the finance department, says Diageo CFO Dierdre Mahlan

  • From hedges to forests

    24 September 2012

    Hedge fund supremo Stanley Fink talks to Mark Nicholls about investing to make an environmental impact as well as a financial return

  • The full story

    19 September 2012

    Paul Druckman explains how integrated reporting will make a crucial contribution to improving the sustainability of business