Analysis

• Making an impact

  27 July 2011

  With growing amounts of private capital being directed towards sustainable development, great claims are being made for impact investing. But definitions are unclear and many institutional investors remain unwilling to engage. Graham Cooper reports

• Raters under review

  26 July 2011

  The Global Initiative for Sustainability Ratings aims to do for ratings what the Global Reporting Initiative did for sustainability – and forge consensus from cacophony. Mark Nicholls reports

• Environmental Finance Awards 2011: Saluting the leaders

  26 July 2011

  Compared to the previous two years, we had a much healthier roster of transactions to assess for this year's awards issue – with the IPO market especially much more active than in the recent past.

• Putting principles into practice

  26 July 2011

  ING's Leonie Schreve explains how the Equator Principles are spreading throughout the Dutch bank

• Dan Adler: Cleaning up in California

  26 July 2011

  California's aggressive clean energy and carbon targets put it at the forefront of US efforts to tackle climate change – and Clean Energy Fund president Dan Adler is right in the middle of the action. He talks to Gloria Gonzalez

• Renewable Energy Deal of the Year

  26 July 2011

  WINNER: Caithness Shepherds Flat wind farm financing RUNNER UP: Eaga social housing solar financing

• IPO of the Year

  26 July 2011

  WINNER: Amyris RUNNER UP: Enel Green Power

• Sustainable Forestry Deal of the Year

  26 July 2011

  WINNER: The Kasigau Corridor REDD project

• Environmental Finance Personality of the Year

  26 July 2011

  WINNER: Christopher Flensborg

• Catastrophe Risk Deal of the Year

  26 July 2011

  WINNER: Clariden Leu's notional USA natural perils catastrophe derivative