Analysis

• Chinese finance on the march

  06 October 2010

  Fresh from two trips to China to meet banks, insurers, regulators and policy-makers, UNEP Finance Initiative head Paul Clements-Hunt talks about his impressions as the country's finance sector marches towards sustainability

• States must, again, drive US climate action

  06 October 2010

  The lack of federal action on climate change means that the effort must come, once more, from the states. Shanna Brownstein examines the tools they are already putting to work

• Keeping to contracts

  06 October 2010

  What is it that environmental policy-makers don't understand about sticking to contracts, asks Mark Nicholls

• Riding a policy rollercoaster

  06 October 2010

  Australia's off-again, on-again federal carbon policy may be difficult to follow, but local and corporate initiatives are steadily bubbling up. Jennifer Lauber Patterson surveys the landscape

• The end of the China Development Mechanism?

  06 October 2010

  China still dominates the Clean Development Mechanism – but its low-carbon growth strategy is moving away from the international carbon market and towards domestic carbon pricing. Joshua Speckman reports

• Looking beyond 2012

  06 October 2010

  With aggressive targets and a range of emissions trading initiatives under way, Japan is preparing to step up its efforts to tackle climate change. But its international role is changing, says Yukimi Shimura

• Taking sustainability into account

  06 October 2010

  Malcolm Preston, global head of sustainability at PwC, says investment throughout the recent recession is paying dividends. He talks to Mark Nicholls

• Some IPOs should be too hot to handle

  05 October 2010

  The planned listing of Coal India is the latest example of how capital markets are failing to price – or even consider – climate change risk, says Mark Campanale

• Spain, Basel cast pall over renewables financers

  23 September 2010

  The renewable energy sector may have passed last year's nadir, but finance is far from flowing. Mark Nicholls reports

• Confronting climate risk

  20 September 2010

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