Analysis

• Beating the credit crunch

  01 June 2008

  Despite the credit crunch, clean-tech entrepreneurs can still raise money, says Alexander Munro – and here's how

• To the Equator and beyond

  01 June 2008

  This month, and this issue of Environmental Finance, mark the fifth anniversary of the Equator Principles. Five years ago, 10 private sector banks came together to announce that they would voluntarily commit to applying these environmental and social principles to their project finance business.

• Five years around the Equator

  01 June 2008

  In terms of their uptake, the Equator Principles have been a runaway success. But what effect have they actually had on how banks manage the social and environmental risks in project finance? Jess McCabe reports

• The disclosure challenge

  01 June 2008

  It's all very well for banks to sign up to the Equator Principles – but how are stakeholders to assess their effectiveness? Esther Garcia consider how banks should report on their implementation

• The windfall profits debate

  01 June 2008

  Daniel Chartier and Eric Holdsworth reject the argument that free allocation of emission allowances necessarily leads to windfall profits for utilities

• Environmental liabilities go to market

  01 May 2008

  Greg Rogers considers how market-based valuation of environmental liabilities will begin to impact business mergers and acquisitions

• Building the investment case

  01 May 2008

  A new report from IUCN and Shell calls for the creation of a 'biodiversity business facility' to help build a market – and the more active participation of the environmental finance community, says Francis Vorheis

• A climate change share price boost?

  01 May 2008

  Does making a commitment to tackling carbon emissions translate into a share-price premium? Paul Bowden and Stefan Altenschmidt explain a new index that attempts to find out

• The biofuels baby

  01 May 2008

  Eighteen months ago, they were expected to save the planet. Now, they are going to starve it to death. The crescendo of criticism that biofuels have come in for in recent months has become deafening.

• Another look at additionality

  01 May 2008

  Eron Bloomgarden and Mark Trexler argue for a top-down approach to assessing carbon offset project additionality