Climate change news
- Leading global investors publish disclosure standards for electric utilities to aid analysis of climate change risks
- Leading international investors today published disclosure guidelines for the electric utilities sector
- Clean tech investment rose 44 percent two years in a row to more than $5billion in 2007
- Venture capitalists, investment banks and private investors are the prime financiers for the clean tech industry with most investment going to energy generation - solar, wind and biofuels.
- HRH Prince Charles leads pension fund initiative
- HRH Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales, is spearheading a low-profile group of eight of the world's biggest pension funds known as the P8 to advance investment strategies to combat climate change.
- Trading in Carbon emissions to boom by 2020
- Major growth in carbon market to continue as world comes to grips with equitable establishment of emissions trading regime.
- US Banks create The Carbon Principles
- US banks develop a Protocol to guide climate policy in energy development project finance and to gain market edge ahead of forthcoming US legislation which looks likely to favour carbon-cap-and-trade programmes.