RSS News Feeds

Keep up to date with the Southwest Climate Change Network news feeds. Drawing on a selection of high-quality credible sources, the feeds provide quick access to new and recent stories on climate change and energy in the Southwest, cutting-edge climate change research, and climate change solutions involving policy, new technology, and the private sector.

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.

Ex-Wall Street bankers launch clean-tech advisory firm

Published by Environmental Finance Online News on July 02, 2009

2 July: A team of former Wall Street bankers have launched a financial advisory firm focused on the alternative energy and clean technology sectors.

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CME launches SO2 contracts

Published by Environmental Finance Online News on July 02, 2009

2 July: CME Group is to launch a series of futures and options contracts based on sulphur dioxide allowances in mid July.

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UK government faces judicial review over sustainability at RBS

Published by Environmental Finance Online News on July 02, 2009

2 July: Three environmental NGOs have taken legal action against the UK Treasury over its decision to bail out RBS without imposing environmental criteria on the bank’s finance practices

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UK could generate £70bn from wind, wave power – Carbon Trust

Published by Environmental Finance Online News on July 02, 2009

2 July: The UK offshore wind and wave power markets could be worth £70 billion ($115 billion) and provide at least 15% of the carbon dioxide emissions reductions needed to meet the country’s 2050 targets, said the Carbon Trust today.

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Bache launches biofuels and climate change index (from Bioenergy Business)

Published by Environmental Finance Online News on July 02, 2009

2 July: Trader and broker Bache Commodities yesterday launched a "green" investment and benchmarking index based on biofuels feedstocks and "clean air" commodities including carbon emissions credits.

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Siemens doubles income from environmental business

Published by Environmental Finance Online News on July 02, 2009

2 July: Annual revenues from Siemens’ environmental activities grew 12% in 2008 to €18.9 billion ($26.5 billion) – almost double the rate for the business as a whole.

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Bridging loan tides over Econcern, but breakup imminent

Published by Environmental Finance Online News on June 04, 2009

4 June: Dutch renewable energy company Econcern says it obtained short-term bridging finance earlier this week, and is now seeking to divest itself of potentially all of its joint ventures and operating companies.

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Weather risk market halves in 08/09 – WRMA

Published by Environmental Finance Online News on June 04, 2009

4 June: The notional value of transactions in the weather risk market in 2008/9 fell to $15.1 billion, less than half the previous year’s $32 billion, as the economic meltdown took its toll on risk capital, according to an annual survey by the Weather Risk Management Association.

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Cap and trade would slash profits for US utilities – study

Published by Environmental Finance Online News on June 04, 2009

4 June: Carbon costs in a cap-and-trade programme could wipe out earnings for some companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500, according to a study by the Investor Responsibility Research Center Institute.

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Emission reduction pledges not ambitious enough – UNFCCC chief (from Carbon Finance)

Published by Environmental Finance Online News on June 04, 2009

4 June: Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, welcomed a near-complete list of post-2012 emission reduction pledges from industrialised countries, but warned that the level of ambition is not high enough.

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