Analysis

• Sustainability edges towards the MBA core

  07 April 2011

  Change is in the air at many business schools, says Elisabeth Jeffries, with a growing number incorporating sustainability and corporate responsibility issues into the heart of their MBA courses

• Splitting from the atom?

  07 April 2011

  Solar and wind stocks surged as the nuclear crisis in Japan began to unfold, reports Jess McCabe. Is it a temporary blip – or the recovery that investors have been waiting for?

• Putting private equity to work

  06 April 2011

  Despite her US base, the first bets the head of private equity investments at Deutsche Bank Climate Change Advisers is making are in China. Gisele Everett talks clean technology and policy with Gloria Gonzalez

• The role of the reinsurers

  06 April 2011

  Climate change is already changing the patterns of extreme weather around the world – posing challenges for the insurance sector, but also opening up market opportunities, says Peter Höppe

• Materiality: a dialogue of the deaf?

  05 April 2011

  Why do investors care so little about most metrics of corporate sustainability? It all comes down to financial materiality, explains Rory Sullivan

• Breaking down barriers

  04 April 2011

  The growing emphasis on market-based incentives to spur low-carbon investment is creating a need for specialists with a unique combination of skills – and the world's leading universities need to develop similarly interdisciplinary programmes to meet the needs of the environmental finance marketplace, says Mark DeAngelis

• Waiting on supply

  04 April 2011

  IETA's Simone Ruiz set out one blueprint for green bonds at the recent inaugural Environmental Bonds conference in London. Mark Nicholls reports

• California's carbon caveat emptor

  04 April 2011

  Rules designed to protect the environmental integrity of California's carbon offset programme create unmanageable risks for investors that will reduce its efficiency, say Cameron Prell and Adam Raphaely

• How loan guarantees help

  04 April 2011

  Jonathan Silver explains how the US Department of Energy's loan guarantee programme is supporting clean energy technologies, creating jobs and reducing emissions

• Going, going, gone...

  17 March 2011

  European Energy Exchange's Tim Greenwood says Europe's carbon exchanges are looking forward to increased auctioning and new overseas markets, following closure in the wake of carbon allowance thefts Christopher Cundy reports