Analysis

• Funding a low-carbon future

  14 May 2012

  Will Oulton, editor of Investment Opportunities for a Low-Carbon World, reflects on opportunities for investors in environmental businesses and the need for more 'patient capital'

• The next phase

  11 May 2012

  Josué Tanaka is leading a new phase of the EBRD's sustainable energy lending – and its push into North Africa. He speaks to Christopher Cundy

• Taking sustainability into the classroom

  10 May 2012

  Malik Naeem and Mark Neal summarise the findings of the first region-wide survey of sustainability in business education in the Asia-Pacific region

• Investing with attitude

  08 May 2012

  Californian pension giant CalPERS is flexing its muscles on ESG, under head of corporate governance Anne Simpson. She talks to Felicity Carus

• Staring at the sun

  04 May 2012

  The good news: solar PV is fast approaching the holy grail of grid parity. The bad news: getting there means yet more cost-cutting, restructuring and consolidation. Can investors make money on the way? Mark Nicholls reports

• Making clean energy cheap

  03 May 2012

  It's long been the prescription of environmental economists that those who pollute should bear the costs of that pollution – that so-called environmental externalities should be borne not by society as a whole, but by those responsible for them.

• California presses ahead

  17 April 2012

  Californian regulators have dismissed concerns about the start of the state's carbon cap-and-trade programme next year – but plenty of uncertainties are worrying emitters. Gloria Gonzalez reports from San Francisco

• Bridging the gap on water risk

  12 April 2012

  How should large companies and their investors consider, and communicate, water risk? Environmental Finance and Irbaris brought the two sides together to find out. Mark Nicholls reports

• Energising the efficiency game

  12 April 2012

  Investing in and implementing industrial energy efficiency has not been a straightforward affair. Environmental Finance and DNV asked a roundtable of experts to discuss the barriers – and how to overcome them. Christopher Cundy reports

• Under the hammer

  11 April 2012

  All eyes at carbon exchange BlueNext are on the tender for the EU-wide allowance auction platform – as a springboard into the futures market. CEO François-Xavier Saint-Macary talks to Mark Nicholls