Analysis

• In the eye of the beholder

  01 July 2008

  Another summer, another G8 summit. This one, on the Japanese island of Hokkaido, apparently cost its hosts $590 million to stage, and goodness knows how much to convene the usual travelling circus of politicians, diplomats and journalists.

• An allowance to take to the bank

  01 July 2008

  Congress should look to carbon allowance property rights when it revisits the Lieberman-Warner bill – or risk hitting the liquidity of the carbon market, say Patrick Traylor and James Morin

• Asking the right questions

  01 July 2008

  The EU faces an uphill battle to meet its 2020 renewable energy and greenhouse gas targets. The UK's energy minister Malcolm Wicks sets out how the UK is rising to the challenge

• Putting wind power into the mainstream

  01 July 2008

  Eddie O'Connor wasted no time after selling Airtricity in leaping back into the clean energy fray, with new venture Mainstream Renewable Power. He talks wind power with Jess McCabe

• Software suppliers grapple with emissions challenge

  01 July 2008

  As carbon emissions rise ever higher up the corporate agenda, software companies are having to adapt their existing products or develop dedicated solutions for this new management challenge. Clive Davidson reports

• From the bottom up

  01 July 2008

  Emerging markets and microfinance were the winners in this year's Sustainable Banking awards, reports Jess McCabe

• People moves this month

  01 July 2008

  Hermes Real Estate has appointed TATIANA BOSTEELS as head of responsible property investment. She will report to director KEITH BUGDEN. Bosteels joins Hermes from the London Climate Change Agency, where she was climate change manager, developing and implementing policies through public–private vehicles. She also ran a climate change consultancy business for three years and is a director of Climate Change Solutions, a not-for-profit company that aims to promote policy and technological solutions to climate change challenges.

• Harnessing the power of finance

  01 June 2008

  The Equator Principles have helped transform risk management in project finance. But, says Lars Thunell, their implementation and evolution continue to pose challenges, as well as present opportunities

• It's an ill wind

  01 June 2008

  It's one thing to realise that weather can move commodity markets or maul company revenues – it's another thing to profit from it. Mark Nicholls talks to Peter Brewer, the hedge fund manager who does

• Governors on the march

  01 June 2008

  As US federal legislators plan long-anticipated climate change legislation, they would do well to look to the practical progress made by state governors, say Michael Northrop, David Sassoon and Ken Colburn