environmental finance Articles
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The new frontier in environmental finance
China’s overseas presence has brought a new way of doing business to the world. By 2030, China may become the largest economy in the world. Less than one decade from now, emerging markets including Brazil, China, India, Mexico and Russia, will comprise half of world’s top 10 GDP list. The global remapping of economic power presents significant opportunities and challenges to U.S. ...
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Mobilizing Investors to Protect Climate, Land and Biodiversity
The current climate and biodiversity crises call for a mobilisation of finance at scale to support nature-based solutions. Annual investments needed as estimated by the Biodiversity Finance Initiative exceed US$400 billion, but we can track only US$52 billion as of 2019. Investors are discouraged by the high levels of uncertainty and lack of data related to environmental projects. In response, ...
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Environmental decision making by multilateral development banks: a theoretical framework for assessing their environmental performance
This paper proposes a theoretical framework for improving environmental decision making and assessing environmental performance of multilateral development banks (MDBs) – a hitherto unnoticed parameter of global environmental governance. A methodology is developed by setting the criteria for exploring the integration of environmental concerns in the financing activities of the best-known MDBs ...
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Development policy cooperation with China in the environmental sector: principles and focal areas
Environmental conservation is a focus of German development policy and thus also a focus of cooperation with the People's Republic of China. Development that is environmentally sound and makes careful use of natural resources is not only important for the people of China, in terms of preserving the source of their livelihood and helping to improve their living conditions. It is also, given the ...
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Integrated Environmental Risk Financing for Successful Brownfields Redevelopment
Untitled Document Environmental engineers and others involved with brownfields redevelopment have increasingly come to appreciate the role of the new environmental insurance products in financing environmental liability risk. Most have probably heard of cleanup cost cap insurance that can transfer the risk of cost overruns to the insurance company and pollution ...
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Globalised finance-dominated accumulation regime and sustainable development
Ecological, economic and social issues are tightly interwoven and relate to a specific mode of production and social relations. Hence, we use the term "sustainable development" in a very broad sense, aimed at questioning how much and how far the dynamics of end-of-century capitalism is compatible with social well-being and environmental preservation. The new finance-driven accumulation ...
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Is $0 your best guess? - Many companies do not yet factor in a price for carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions into their corporate planning.
Emerging climate change policy regimes and evolving greenhouse gas (GHG) markets are increasingly important for corporate decision-makers around the world. Readers of Environmental Finance, of course, do not need to be convinced of the sheer magnitude of voluntary and mandatory climate change initiatives being discussed at national and international levels. And few observers believe that the ...
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Global economic repercussions of a Pigouvian tax: who bears the brunt?
The global interdependency in trade, finance and environmental issues should prompt both the OECD and non-OECD countries to engage in more dialogue. The application of a carbon tax could lead to changes in macroeconomic behaviour in OECD countries, which will impact upon trading patterns. Environmental improvements in developing countries are costly, but can be undertaken effectively in an ...
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Banks and Environment Protection - an Assessment
Only Average Results in the Environmental-Rating of Europe‘s Forty Most Prominent Banks Switzerland is one of the world‘s most important places for banking. That the Swiss banks are also ahead of their competitors in the area of environmental protection is just one of the findings of an international Environmental-Rating survey published today by oekom research. With grades of C+ each, the two ...
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Challenges in the implementation of a national programme on drinking water
Provision of safe drinking water is a challenging problem requiring immediate attention. The skewed distribution of rainfall, inefficient use of water, presence of a variety of contaminants, such as fluoride, arsenic, iron and salinity, in most of the sources, and pollution by various economic activities have been the factors responsible for inadequate resources against the increasing demand due ...
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Climate Change Risk Assessment and the Equator Principles Requirements
What is a Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA)? CCRA’s seek to identify the likelihood of future climate risks and their potential impacts, with the aim of prioritisation of appropriate climate action and adaptation. In terms of a new project or development, climate change risk assessments can include both Physical and Transitional Risks. How do Physical and Transitional Risks Impact ...
By WKC Group
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St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
Location: St. Landry Parish Landfill Washington, Louisiana Partners: St. Landry Parish Solid Waste Commission BioCNG, LLC GT Environmental Finance RPH Engineering Aucoin & Associates Progressive Waste Contact: F.J. Jolivette Plant Operator St. Landry Parish Landfill fjolivette@slpsolidwaste.org Feedstock: Landfill biogas Maximum Annual Fuel Production: 175,000 GGEs ...
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Blue-Green algae control and WTP cost savings (ID206) - Case study
Topics: Raw water, blue green algae, taste and odor, treatment savings, improve fishery, water clarity Customer: Information is available upon request from Medora Corporation. 866-437-8076 info@medoraco.com Overview: This lake is an 850+ acre man-made reservoir feeding the a Water Treatment Plant (WTP) for a county. The WTP production capacity was ten (10) to twelve (12) million gallons per day ...
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CDM monitoring & reporting for carbon credits case study
Abridged from a Wastecon 2008 Presentation and Paper by Mitchal L. Cassel LANDTEC, Colton, California The project sites The project is in Brazil and obtains certified emission reductions (CER) or carbon credits for a large scale, waste handling and disposal, clean development mechanism (CDM) project. Methane emissions are being reduced through collection and destruction of landfill gas (LFG). ...
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Project - TV-Target - Eco-Efficient Treatment of TV - Sets and Monitors
Introduction Currently about 2 billion TV-sets exist in the world which come back for recycling within the next 15-20 years. If we consider these huge amounts of WEEE there is a need for eco-efficient recycling technologies. Electronic recycling industry must meet future demands on industrial efficiency and cost reduction. Therefore, the dismantling process of TV-sets and monitors must be ...
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Integrated Environmental Risk Management in Real Estate Transactions
Traditional risk management posits a rational, five-step process for managing risks. The outstanding differences between this traditional process and the environmental risk management process lie in the technicality and complexity of step one (identifying and analyzing environmental risk) and of the first part of step two (examining the feasibility of alternative risk management, specifically ...
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With New Power Comes New Responsibility: How Asset Managers Can Improve Their Voting Record on Climate in 2021
Investor engagement on climate change has been gaining unprecedented momentum. A combination of extreme weather disasters, weakening revenues and asset write-downs at oil and gas companies, accelerating clean energy deployment, and a new administration with ambitious plans for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, is driving this increased investor engagement on climate change. As a result, more ...
By Ceres
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Cyanobacteria & odor control in a raw water lake - Case Study
Better raw water quality results in significant treatment savings and a fast pay-back. Topics: raw water, cyanobacteria, cyanotoxins, taste and odor, treatment savings, improve fishery, water clarity Reservoir Overview: This lake is an 850+ acre manmade reservoir feeding a County operated water treatment plant (WTP) in Georgia. The WTP production capacity was ten (10) to twelve (12) million ...
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The risk-effective sustainability of policies: the small business credit environment in Korea
Current ecological or environmental risks, such as air pollution, are usually analysed in an economic system. Existing studies show that small businesses are exposed to environmental risks and thus need to be supported by public financing for the risk-effective sustainability of regional economic performance. However, some critics argue that the acceptable performance may result from ...
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Public finance and environment: correlations of selected taxes with pollution and CO2 emissions in China between 1999 and 2006
China's breakneck economic growth in recent decades was accompanied by visible environmental pollution and degradation. In the same period, tax revenues also increased sharply. Replacing existing taxes with the environment taxes called for by many environmental economists seems a promising solution to its environmental problems, but this needs more insight into the relationship of the existing ...
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