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Making the case for clean energy
17 December 2010The renewable energy sector has been under particular attack of late, with sceptics taking potshots at its viability and environmental effectiveness. But many of these attacks are flawed or unfounded, say Gabriel Miller, Camilla Sharples and Paul Ho
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Stuck on REDD
17 December 2010Investment is urgently needed to save the world's tropical forests, but efforts of investors such as Hylton Murray-Philipson have been hobbled by slow progress towards an international 'REDD' framework. He talks to Mark Nicholls
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Temperatures rising
17 December 2010The US administration is considering whether to drag China to the WTO over alleged clean-tech protectionism. But ensuring that China plays by the rules is only one part of the story, says Jake Colvin
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Not punishment, but cure
17 December 2010James Cameron from Climate Change Capital says pricing carbon is a vital part of the world's growth strategy – which makes regulatory attacks on the market so baffling
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Trading truncated
17 December 2010The regulatory omens don't look good for the major US emissions markets, and the economic downturn has dried up liquidity in the regional ones. Gloria Gonzalez reports on a gloomy year in SO2 and NOx
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California dreaming
17 December 2010Trading is under way in California's nascent carbon market – which could form a basis for EPA carbon regulation across the US, say Stephen MacKenzie and Thomas Cape
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End of term
18 November 2010The US mid-term elections have thrown US climate and energy policies into even more disarray than they were in before. Gloria Gonzalez asks what they mean for carbon trading, renewables and emissions regulation
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International carbon markets 2010
15 November 2010What effect will the Cancun climate talks have on the global markets? Download this special report from Environmental Finance. (Subscription required)
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Lessons from Nagoya
11 November 2010The biodiversity agreement in Nagoya is to be welcomed – but a dose of realism on financing is well overdue, says Mark Nicholls
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Banking on biodiversity
09 November 2010Biodiversity is low on the radar screen of financial institutions, or even non-existent. But, in the wake of the Nagoya Protocol, financiers are awakening to a world where environmental and social phenomena are increasingly becoming financially material, say Ivo Mulder and Jessica Boucher
- BlackRock's sustainable and transition funds attract inflows despite backlash
- French investors devise framework to tackle 'engagement washing'
- Capital Continuum merges with Finance Earth
- Big Nature Impact Fund raises £65m after narrowing focus
- Storebrand and BNP to lead nature transition group
- Lack of actionable adaptation investments, says Aberdeen
- Sovereign credit ratings 'ignoring' nature risks
- Luxembourg commits to TFFF
- CBI: Pioneering climate resilience taxonomy sharpened-up
- China's offshore green bond to catalyse market