Analysis

  • Carbon Finance Deal of the Year

    26 July 2011

    WINNER: Sindicatum Carbon Capital structured CER sale RUNNER UP: Parhelion EU ETS eligibility insurance

  • Environmental Bond Issue of the Year

    26 July 2011

    WINNER: SunPower Andromeda Finance solar project bond

  • Big pharma's biodiversity issue

    19 July 2011

    The reliance of the pharmaceutical industry on natural resources may be greater than it or investors are aware of, say Charlotte Linnebank and Annelisa Grigg

  • Corporate governance for a carbon-constrained world

    12 July 2011

    Rory Sullivan examines what defines corporate leadership on climate change governance – and how investors should test corporate claims

  • Finding a path to REDD investment

    05 July 2011

    How can finance be mobilised to protect the world's rainforests, in a climate of extreme policy uncertainty? Environmental Finance and Irbaris convened a panel of experts to try to find out. Mark Nicholls reports

  • Shareholders fight back

    30 June 2011

    Shareholders unhappy with how companies are performing on natural gas fracking, energy and climate issues are making their voices heard at annual general meetings, says Mindy Lubber from investor coalition Ceres

  • The real climate change investment story

    22 June 2011

    The recent survey of global investors' response to climate change was partial and misleading, says Julian Poulter

  • The nature of the thing

    21 June 2011

    Failure to distinguish between environmental instruments and the cash-settled contracts based on them could impose crippling costs, warn Christopher Berendt and Jeremy Weinstein

  • Broadsides from the back benches

    21 June 2011

    As chairman of an influential parliamentary committee, veteran Tory MP Tim Yeo has proved an effective critic of UK climate policy. He talks electricity market reform and emissions with Mark Nicholls

  • Thinking globally, investing locally

    16 June 2011

    M&A in the renewables sector is hotting up – but investors are cautious, crave policy certainty and, to a large degree, are staying close to home, says KPMG's Andy Cox