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The banks breeze in
01 September 2007The dramatic growth in renewable energy generation is being increasingly financed by the capital markets. Jess McCabe reports on how investors and bankers are coming to love green energy
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Paying up to cut emissions
01 July 2007Investment in funds that buy greenhouse gas emission credits is soaring. Christopher Cundy asks managers where the money is coming from – and where it's going
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Rocket to the moon?
01 July 2007Carbon capture may be a shining hope for the low-carbon future. But opinion is divided on how best to incentivise industry to pilot it, or promote its widespread adoption. Jess McCabe reports
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Taking the long view
01 July 2007Pumping carbon dioxide underground for long-term storage raises some unique liability exposures. Matt Elkington considers how they could be managed
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Water, water everywhere....
01 July 2007With the UK having just endured the wettest June on record, concerns about the availability of water are not exactly at the forefront of peoples' minds here. But only last summer, the country was facing widespread water restrictions after the two driest winters for 40 years.
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Broadening the agenda
01 July 2007Environmental due diligence isn't just about contaminated land and regulatory compliance any more – investors need to consider a much broader agenda of environmental risks, says Simon Pringle
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What the US?can learn from the CDM
01 July 2007As US policy-makers, businesses and investors prepare for a federal US carbon market, they would do well to learn some of the lessons from the Clean Development Mechanism, says Patrick Traylor
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A scheme with legs
01 July 2007The EU Emissions Trading Scheme needs longer-term horizons, says Patrick Nollet, and governments and industry should also recognise that it is operating as two markets in one – and give it the two legs that it needs
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Biofuels and the future
01 July 2007In the space of 12 months, the biofuels industry has gone from climate saviour to environmental scapegoat. But it has a crucial – and sustainable – role to play in tackling climate change and energy insecurity, says Ron Oxburgh
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The unlikely revolutionary
01 July 2007Ray Pospisil talks to GE's Kevin Walsh – the man responsible for building one of the world's largest renewable energy investment portfolios
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