News

• Clean-tech stock pickers look to energy efficiency again in 2011

  06 January 2011

  Analysts and investors predict last year's gloom for clean-tech stocks will continue in 2011, with few expectations that renewable energy share prices will recover – but energy efficiency is once again tipped to outperform.

• US climate and energy policy in 2011 – what to watch

  06 January 2011

  Law firm Van Ness Feldman has set out its issues to watch in climate change, clean air and clean energy policy in the US in 2011 – painting a picture of profound policy uncertainty and overlapping and often competing political, regulatory, legislative and legal drivers.

• Climate bonds standard to be released by April

  05 January 2011

  The Climate Bonds Initiative is to unveil its first labelling standard by the end of March, for wind energy-linked bonds, after securing initial funding for the project.

• Emerging markets outdo Europe, US on climate index

  05 January 2011

  Significant climate change stimulus spending has helped emerging market stocks in HSBC's Climate Change Index outperform those in the developed world last year.

• Leading lights named in survey of environmental markets

  16 December 2010

  Environmental Finance and Carbon Finance – two of the leading global publications covering environmental markets – have named the winners in their annual market survey.

• US clean energy target to include nuclear, clean coal?

  16 December 2010

  The next US Congress has its sights on a clean energy standard (CES) that includes clean coal and new nuclear technology rather than a federal renewable electricity standard (RES), a shift that Barack Obama's administration seems willing to embrace.

• Investors warned on risky unconventional fossil fuels

  16 December 2010

  Investors must scrutinise the significant risks associated with production of unconventional fossil fuel sources such as oil shale and coal-to-liquids (CTL), according to a report commissioned by Ceres.

• UK overhauls electricity markets, clean energy subsidies

  16 December 2010

  The UK government today announced plans to overhaul the country's electricity market, introducing feed-in tariffs for clean energy generation and supporting carbon prices.

• US Senate throws renewable grants a lifeline

  16 December 2010

  The US Treasury grant programme for renewable energy projects is on the verge of receiving a critical lifeline.

• Regulatory uncertainty threatens California's renewables targets

  16 December 2010

  California's success in meeting America's most aggressive targets for renewable energy may be derailed by lack of regulatory certainty, despite the latest figures from the state energy regulator showing that approvals for projects already put the state on track to meet its 2020 target.