Policy, investment and markets Features for December 2008

Policy, investment and markets Features Archive

Climate: urgent action required Climate: urgent action required

It's been another busy period for GWEC's Steve Sawyer, who has attended an eye-watering number of international events on the circuit. Here, he brings us up to date with a view from the front line of the climate change debate…

Renewables and carbon trading

Where next for renewable energies in the fast-developing world of carbon trading?

Clean energy stocks take a hit

During the months of August and September 2008, the WilderHill New Energy Global Innovation Index – which tracks 88 of the top clean energy companies – fell 26.8. This represented the biggest two-monthly fall in the index's history, and took it to a level 50% below its peak in November 2007. So what does the future hold?

Biomass in the USA

Will the USA be able to count on large amounts of biomass energy in the next few decades? Some reports and organizations are more bullish than others, discovers Lyn Corum.