Analysis

• The beginning of the end of Kyoto?

  04 February 2011

  The Cancún conference will be remembered for bringing the international climate talks back from the brink of disaster. But did it also seal the demise of the Kyoto Protocol? Christopher Cundy reports

• Sending out the right signals

  04 February 2011

  Ole Beier Sørenson says investors were reassured that Cancún kept the UN climate talks on the road – but they need clearer signals from policy-makers if finance is to flow

• Solving the permanence conundrum

  04 February 2011

  Effective and affordable risk management is vital to unlock investment into forest carbon, say Eron Bloomgarden and Claire Jahns

• Time to send offsetting into retirement?

  24 January 2011

  Carbon offsetting has received a mixed press in recent years – but switching from carbon credits to allowances could help restore its credibility, argues Jane Burston

• California puts the brakes on emissions

  19 January 2011

  The same elections that knocked carbon trading off the US federal agenda gave the green light to a comprehensive carbon cap-and-trade programme in California. Gloria Gonzalez reports

• Forging a new path

  14 January 2011

  South Korea is investing billions of dollars in an effort to reorientate its economy towards "green growth". Joshua Speckman reports on an experiment without precedent

• Steady as she goes

  17 December 2010

  Weather risk dealers report a steady, if unspectacular, year in the market, while the catastrophe risk market has been buoyed by growing bond issuance. Charlotte Dudley reports

• The finance starts to flow

  17 December 2010

  Policy uncertainty has sent a chill through renewable energy markets in 2010, but financing, at least, is starting to thaw. Jess McCabe reports

• Europe gets smart about metering

  17 December 2010

  The roll-out of smart meters across Europe will become one of the largest and most complex investment programmes ever undertaken in the energy sector. Ronald Hendrikx considers what is at stake

• Canada on the cusp

  17 December 2010

  Canada has been overlooked by environmental investors but, say Martin Grosskopf and Rachel Davies, its improving policy environment and healthy, resource-based economic fundamentals are positioning it to deliver the next spurt of clean-tech growth