Archive

  • Broadening the agenda

    01 July 2007

    Environmental 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

  • OECD bolsters environmental guidelines for ECAs …

    01 July 2007

    OECD countries have tightened the environmental standards a project must meet to receive support from their export credit agencies (ECAs).

  • What the US?can learn from the CDM

    01 July 2007

    As 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

  • While OPIC caps carbon emissions

    01 July 2007

    The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) has promised to cut emissions from the projects it finances by 20% over 10 years, but environmentalists have slammed the move as insufficient.

  • A scheme with legs

    01 July 2007

    The 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

  • Canadian travellers offered snow risk bet

    01 July 2007

    WeatherBill, an online weather risk management service laun­ched in January, has struck its first major deal that could provide up to C$100 million (US$95 million) of coverage in the event of heavy snowfall at Canadian airports.

  • Biofuels and the future

    01 July 2007

    In 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

  • EPA offers tougher ozone rules

    01 July 2007

    The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed stricter rules for ozone levels. Although environmental and health groups complain that the agency's plan is not sufficient, any change could impact revisions to power plant emissions regulations.

  • The unlikely revolutionary

    01 July 2007

    Ray Pospisil talks to GE's Kevin Walsh – the man responsible for building one of the world's largest ­renewable energy investment portfolios

  • People moves this month

    01 July 2007

    Two leading figures in the carbon markets have moved to US investment banks, signalling growing US interest in the effort to tackle climate change.