Investment and Finance
Stories in this feed are from Environmental Finance Online, a monthly magazine covering the ever-increasing impact of environmental issues on the lending, insurance, investment and trading decisions affecting industry.
PwC buys Sustainable Finance
UK biofuels below par on sustainability (from Bioenergy Business)
22 January: The UK’s petrol and diesel industry is falling short on supplying sustainable biofuels, a government agency reported, the same week in which renewable fuels associations were rapped for describing biofuels as "sustainable" in an advertising campaign.
Zurich unveils carbon capture and storage insurance
EC backs weather and cat insurance programme
27 November: The European Commission has pledged €24.5 million ($31.6 million) to the Global Index Insurance Facility, which aims to develop index insurance products that mitigate weather and catastrophe risks in African, Caribbean and Pacific countries.
Merrill Lynch predicts clean-tech ‘revolution’
EIB urged to end loans to fossil fuel projects by 2012
Environmental groups call for Europe to scrap biofuels target (from Bioenergy Business)
27 November: A grouping of environmental and nature protection organisations has added its voice to calls for the European Union to scrap a proposed 10% renewable transportation fuels target and scale back the use of biofuels to meet fuel efficiency and car emissions standards.
UK chancellor in surprise renewables boost
Credit Suisse to cut carbon desk (from Carbon Finance)
EPA kicks GHG rulemaking to Congress (from Carbon Finance)
London 17 July: The US Environmental Protection Agency published a long-awaited document on how it could regulate greenhouse gas emissions using existing legislation, but effectively passed the buck to Congress and the next president to see the process through.