Environmental Blogs (16 articles)

The end of the line for landfill

By Peter Michaelis , Alliance Trust on 11 May 2013 Thematic Blog

To an outside observer, the way we use materials in our economies should seem insane. We expend enormous amounts of energy and labour growing, mining, harvesting, refining, manufacturing, transporting, and marketing desirable things. These are then briefly used before being chucked into a hole in...

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UK | Environmental | Alliance

Al Gore's Most Important Talk Ever

By Tim Dieppe , WHEB Asset Management on 20 March 2013 Market Blog

I attended a talk by Al Gore earlier this week hosted by ShareAction (which recently changed its name from Fair Pensions). To my surprise, he described it as: “the most important talk I have ever given.” His mission these days is to promote a shift to a more sustainable capitalism...

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Global | Clean Energy, Multi-thematic, Environmental, Carbon | WHEB 1

Subsidies muddle: Full-fat for nuclear, semi-skimmed for the rest

By Edward Franks , WHEB Asset Management on 20 February 2013 Market Blog

More rumours in the press today (19 February) about a guaranteed price for nuclear power in the UK.

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Global | Clean Energy, Multi-thematic, Environmental | WHEB

O wad some Power the gift tae gie us, To see oursels as ithers see us!

By Seb Beloe , WHEB Asset Management on 7 February 2013 Thematic Blog

Getting excited about the mass adoption of Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) seemed a perfectly reasonable response to projections for the market in 2013 until a colleague pointed out that he could think of little else that would as surely send him to sleep. The comment reminded me of the quote from...

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UK | Clean Energy, Multi-thematic, Environmental | WHEB

What the shale oil counter-revolution means for clean energy

By Edward Franks , WHEB Asset Management on 10 May 2012 Market Blog

More big changes are afoot in the shifting sands of the global energy industry. Crude oil derived from shale formations (‘Shale Oil’) suddenly has the potential to create an abundance of hydrocarbon energy for transportation, where previously it was in short and ever-dwindling supply....

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Global | Clean Energy, Environmental, Carbon | WHEB 1

Market background still positive for energy efficiency

By Ty Lee , WHEB Asset Management on 17 April 2012 Market Blog | Fund Blog

I recently attended the UBS Global Clean Energy and Utilities Conference and met with some analysts in the clean tech field. It is clear that the market backdrop is still more favourable to energy efficiency, whereas the renewable energy sector continues to be challenging.

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| Clean Energy, Multi-thematic, Environmental

Solar shakeout: sun rise in the East, set in the West

By Hyewon Kong , WHEB Asset Management on 4 April 2012 Thematic Blog

This week Q-Cells, once the world’s largest solar manufacturer, filed for insolvency. Its share price dramatically fell below €0.2 from its peak of €80 back in 2007. As an investor who has been following the solar industry for many years, I have very mixed feelings about the...

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| Clean Energy, Environmental

Continued inaction at the UN has lost business and investor confidence

By Simon Webber & Giles Money , Schroders on 27 January 2012 Thematic Blog

The more annual UN Climate Change conferences one observes, the clearer the inaction becomes. In addition, the longer ones’ perspective on these global efforts to contain greenhouse gas emissions, the clearer it becomes how little has been achieved, with essentially no global progress towards...

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Global | Environmental | Schroders

Animal welfare not just an issue for ethical investment funds?

By Virginia Jennings , EIRIS on 9 January 2012 Thematic Blog

In the past, poor corporate performance on farm animal welfare grounds led some ethically-motivated investors to screen out companies, but responsible investors are increasingly becoming aware of the link between farm animal welfare and financial value, as apparent from a recent UKSIF investor...

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| Agriculture, Environmental, Ethical

Unbalanced news shows the environmental message is not getting through

By Mark Hoskin , IFA at Holden & Partners on 6 January 2012 Thematic Blog

In yesterday's Cityam an article was published entitled “Going Green isn’t easy when you’re so far in the red”. There is nothing wrong with this statement, but rather the nature of the following text, which seemed to suggest that Shale Gas is the answer to our problems,...

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| Clean Energy, Environmental, Carbon

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How Capital Markets and the West laugh in the face of carbon emissions - while looking holier than thou!

Thanks for that insight Mark. It is depressing to be reminded that hypocrisy is so rife in this...

Patrick Smyth | 4 weeks, 1 day ago | read more

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Mark this is a major challenge for everybody connected to promoting SRI. UKSIF have just been...

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Good point well made.

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