Contributors

ABN Amro

ABN AMRO is an international bank with European roots. We have a clear focus on consumer and commercial clients in our local markets and focus globally on select multinational corporations and financial institutions, as well as private clients. Our business mix gives us a competitive edge in our chosen markets and client segments.

• Investing in Biofuels

Acclimatise

Acclimatise is the market leader in climate risk management consultancy and intelligence services.They help governments and businesses assess and manage the risks and opportunities of inevitable climate change.

• Adaptation: Credit Risk Impacts of a Changing Climate
• Building Business Resilience to inevitable Climate Change
• Climate Finance, Business and Community - the Benefits of Co-operation on Adaptation

AXA Investment Managers

AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) is a multi-expert investment manager serving institutional investors, distributors and AXA Group insurance companies from offices in 22* countries. AXA IM is part of the AXA Group, a world leader in financial protection and wealth management.

• Biodiversity and Economic Growth

Bank Sarasin

Bank Sarasin’s core activities include investment advisory and asset management services for private and institutional clients, as well as an investment funds business. In addition to its headquarters in Basel , the Bank has offices in Berne, Zurich , Geneva and Lugano in Switzerland . Internationally, the Sarasin Group has offices in Delhi, Dubai, Dublin, Frankfurt, Guernsey, Hong Kong, La Coruña, London, Madrid, Mumbai, Nuremberg, Oman, Qatar, Singapore, Warsaw and Vienna. Bank Sarasin pioneered sustainable investment in 1989 and launched the world’s first investment fund based on the concept of eco-efficiency back in 1994. Today its sustainable investment team of 47 employees is one of Europe’s largest and most experienced.

• Solar Study 2008
• Solar Energy 2007
• Energy Efficiency: Hidden Capital - How Investors Can Benefit From The “Cheapest Source Of Energy"
• Sustainability And Share Performance – A Long-Running Debate Revisited
• Renewable Energies: Sunnier Times Ahead Once Storms Have Cleared the Air
• Emerging Sustainability - Sustainability Analysis of Emerging Market Companies
• Renewable Energies - Evolving from a Niche to a Mass Market
• The World in a Dilemma between Prosperity and Resource Protection

Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Bank of America Merrill Lynch is one of the world's leading wealth management, capital markets and advisory companies, with offices in 38 countries and territories and total client assets of approximately $1.7 trillion. As an investment bank, it is a leading global trader and underwriter of securities and derivatives across a broad range of asset classes and serves as a strategic advisor to corporations, governments, institutions and individuals worldwide.

• Energy Efficiency: The Potential for Selected Investment Opportunities
• Aviation In EU ETS: An Incentive For Efficiency

Barclays

Barclays is a UK-based financial services group, with a large international presence in Europe, the USA, Africa and Asia. It is engaged primarily in banking, investment banking and investment management. In terms of market capitalisation, Barclays is one of the largest financial services companies in the world. It has been operating for more than 300 years with 27 million customers and 122,600 employees in over 50 countries.

• Adaptation: Credit Risk Impacts of a Changing Climate

Cambridge Centre for Energy Studies (CCES)

The Cambridge Centre for Energy Studies will examine some of the key issues affecting energy security worldwide including: developments in Russia; the growing trade in natural gas; the gradual emergence of alternative and renewable forms of energy supply; and the need for new international institutional frameworks to manage the stabilization of carbon emissions.

• The Forces of Change in the Energy Market

Canaccord Genuity

Canaccord Capital Inc (CCI) is a leading independent full service investment dealer in Canada with capital markets operations in the United Kingdom and the United States of America . Canaccord Capital is publicly traded on both the Toronto Stock Exchange and the London Stock Exchange’s AIM. Canaccord has operations in private client services and capital markets. Together, these operations offer a wide range of complementary investment products, brokerage services and investment banking services to Canaccord's private, institutional and corporate clients. Canaccord has over 1,500 employees worldwide in 30 offices, including 23 Private Client Services offices located across Canada.

• Investing in Renewable Energy

Center on International Cooperation (CIC), NYU

The Center on International Cooperation at New York University works to enhance international responses to humanitarian crises and global security threats through applied research and direct engagement with multilateral institutions and the wider policy community. It has an international reputation for agenda-setting work on post-conflict peacebuilding, global peace operations, and UN reform.

• Climate Change: the State of the Debate

Cisco

• Why IT Must Take the Lead in Greening the Enterprise

City of London Corporation

The City of London Corporation provides local government services for the financial and commercial heart of Britain, the 'Square Mile'. It combines its ancient traditions and ceremonial functions with the role of a modern and efficient local authority, looking after the needs of its residents, businesses and over 320,000 people who come to work in “The City” every day. It is committed to supporting and promoting The City as the world leader in international finance and business services through the policies it pursues and the high standard of services it provides. Its responsibilities extend far beyond The City boundaries in that it also provides a host of additional facilities for the benefit of the nation.

• Delivering Copenhagen - The Role of the Financial Services' Sector in Supporting Action on Climate Change
• After Copenhagen - The Challenge for Financial Services
• Volunteering - the Business Case
• The Post-Trade Infrastructure for Carbon Emissions Trading

Credit Agricole Cheuvreux

A leading European equity broker, Credit Agricole Cheuvreux offers a full range of brokerage services - research, sales, execution - to an impressive international client base.

• Forest Assets for the Future
• Agro-Commodities Challenge – Enough To Feed Everyone's Greed
• SRI Chemicals: GMOs - The Seeds Of Growth?
• The Lean Way: Efficient Building
• A Safer World
• Big Bang for Banks
• Climate Change Policies Impact
• CO2 prices - Rumours of My Death Have Been Exagerated
• Corporate Governance - Regulating the Financial Landscape
• Europe 300 - Carbon Disclosure Project 2009
• Green Cars - Electrify Me!
• US Climate Bill - "Born to Be Mild"
• Good Food

Credit Suisse

Credit Suisse is a world-leading financial services company, advising clients in private banking, investment banking and asset management.

• Agriculture - A Structural Story
• Electric Vehicles - Back to the Future
• Electric Vehicles - Batteries not the only EV plays
• Water - The Pressure is Rising
• Concentrated Solar Power
• The World Post the Credit Crisis
• Energy Efficiency: The Global Case for Efficiency Gains
• The Inconvenient Math - Implications of Costed Carbon

Daiwa Capital Markets

Daiwa Capital Markets is the investment banking arm of Daiwa Securities Group Inc, one of the largest brokerage and banking groups in Japan. This award winning investment bank has offices throughout Europe and the Middle East, and maintains strong ties with its Asian roots, working closely with colleagues across the region. Daiwa has been involved in the creation and distribution of World Bank, Water, CO2 and Vaccine Bonds that raise funds from Japanese investors to fund socially responsible projects overseas.

• Asia Energy Sector
• Carbon Outlook - Recovery from Oversold Position or Dead Cat Bounce?
• Firms Likely to Benefit from Increased Investment in Cleantech
• Green Industrial Revolution Gaining Momentum
• COP 15 to Address Future of Climate Initiatives
• Carbon Forecasts - ETS Supply/Demand and Price Forecasts to 2020
• Comparing Wood - Visit to the Essent's Amercentrale Biomass Firing Plant
• German Nuclear Levy Proposal
• Likely Green Investments Trends in 2010
• New Governments Policies to Boost Renewable Energy Demand
• Smart Grids - Core Infrastructure for Low-Carbon Societies
• Company Report: Suez Environment

Deutsche Bank AG (London)

Deutsche Bank is a leading global investment bank with a strong and profitable private clients franchise. Its businesses are mutually reinforcing. A leader in Germany and Europe, the bank is continuously growing in North America, Asia and key emerging markets.

• While We Are Waiting for the Hammer to Fall
• Bad Omen: As EUAs Fall Amidst Gas Crisis, How Low Can Carbon Go?
• Which Way Blows the Wind? German Nuclear Policy in Focus
• Germany's Nuclear Energy Policy
• Aussie Carbon Rules
• Previewing 2008 ETS emissions: it's all about Q4
• The Crying of Lot 2013 - Phase 3 Auction and the EUA Price
• The Long and the Short of It - Power Sector Key to EUAs and CER Prices
• World Water Markets
• Hard to Credit, Offset Use Again in the Spotlight

Forum for the Future

Founded in 1996, Forum for the Future is an independent, non-profit organisation with a mission to promote sustainable development. Forum for the Future helps businesses and public service providers to understand and manage the risks that change will bring, to find new opportunities in tackling these global challenges, to implement their own commitments to social and environmental responsibility, and to work with others to overcome barriers to action.

• Investments to Combat Climate Change
• Forest Investment Review

Glitnir International Bank

Glitnir is a growing financial services group with strong foundations in its Nordic home markets, Iceland and Norway, offering universal banking and financial services. Services include retail, corporate and investment banking, stock trade/brokerage and capital management.

• United States Geothermal Energy Market Report

Herbert Smith

Herbert Smith is a leading and full-service international legal practice with a 1,200-lawyer network across Europe and Asia. They are acknowledged as being in the top tier in the areas of transactions, projects and disputes. Their international capability is enhanced by their alliance with Gleiss Lutz and Stibbe, the leading Western European law firms with whom they have worked on many major cross-border matters.

• The Middle East: The Move To Low Carbon Energy And Beyond
• Investment in Low-Carbon Technology - the Legal Issues
• Biofuels in Europe: Some Legal And Corporate Social Responsibility Aspects
• Carbon Capture and Storage - Lifting the Barriers
• Further reports of social, ethical or environmental interest are available for public use on the Herbert Smith website

Hermes Equity Ownership Services

Hermes Equity Ownership Services (EOS) enables institutional shareowners around the world to meet their fiduciary responsibilities and become active owners of public companies. EOS is based on the premise that companies with informed and involved shareholders are more likely to achieve superior long-term performance than those without.

HSBC

HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world. HSBC's international network comprises around 8,000 offices in 88 countries and territories in Europe, the Asia-Pacific region, the Americas, the Middle East and Africa. Through an international network linked by advanced technology, including a rapidly growing e-commerce capability, HSBC provides a comprehensive range of financial services: personal financial services; commercial banking; corporate, investment banking and markets; private banking; and other activities.

• Building a Green Recovery

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co

JP Morgan Chase is a leading global financial services firm with operations in more than 60 countries. The firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers, small business and commercial banking, financial transaction processing, asset management, and private equity. A component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, J.P. Morgan Chase has its corporate headquarters in New York and its US retail financial services and commercial banking headquarters in Chicago. Under its brands Chase and JP Morgan, JP Morgan Chase & Co serves millions of consumers in the United States and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients.

• Carbon Capture and Sequestration
• Shedding Light on Microfinance Equity Valuation: Past and Present
• All Eyes on Microfinance Asset Quality

Morgan Stanley

Since its founding in 1935, Morgan Stanley and its people have helped redefine the meaning of financial services. The firm has continually broken new ground in advising our clients on strategic transactions, in pioneering the global expansion of finance and capital markets, and in providing new opportunities for individual and institutional investors.

• Emissions Trading: Trends and Opportunities

NextEarth Foundation

Founded by the Herzl family in 2007, NextEarth Foundation is dedicated to developing, advancing, and supporting innovative and systemic solutions to critical sustainability challenges. As a catalyst and a direct agent for change, the Foundation works with partners across sectors to design and implement its initiatives.

•  A Role for Philanthropy

River Path Associates

River Path is an organisational pathfinder. They work by challenging perceptions, building evidence for change, and mapping the future using a range of techniques, including strategic consulting, research, and the development of creative solutions. They work in the public, private and not for profit sectors, and in multiple professional fields – ranging from demography to communications technologies, and from international relations to retail.

• Climate Change: the State of the Debate

Santa Fe Institute

The Santa Fe Institute is devoted to creating a new kind of scientific research community, one emphasizing multi-disciplinary collaboration in pursuit of understanding the common themes that arise in natural, artificial, and social systems.

• Dynamics of Technological Development in the Energy Sector

Société Générale

SG CIB is one of the three core businesses of the Société Générale Group, alongside Retail Banking and Global Investment Management Services. It is the 3rd largest corporate and investment bank in the euro zone by net banking income, present in some 45 countries across Europe, the Americas and Asia-Pacific, and it employs around 10,000 staff worldwide, with more than 50% of them based outside France. It is a reference bank in its three areas of focus in: euro capital markets; derivative products; and structured finance. SG CIB aims to be a leading European corporate and investment bank, offering excellence of service to its clients, strong profitability to the Group and its shareholders, and to be an employer of choice for its employees. Combining innovation, industry expertise and quality of execution, SG CIB offers value-added integrated financial solutions to corporates, financial institutions and investors.

• Modelling Carbon Intensity
• Green Buildings & Construction
• Green Electrical Equipment
• Green IT
• Green New Deal
• Green Transport
• The SRI Navigator (Methodology)

S P Angel

SP Angel acts as Financial Adviser and Broker to ESV and Volga Farming.

• Make Hay (Even While The Sun Doesn't Shine)

Sustainable Forestry Management

Sustainable Forestry Management was established in 1999 to demonstrate that attractive returns can be generated by investment in the world’s tropical and subtropical forests. SFM is building a global portfolio of forest-based enterprises with the help of commercial, financial, not-for-profit and multilateral partners including leading participants in forestry, bio-prospecting and eco-tourism. SFM's principal revenues will be derived from supplying and trading carbon dioxide emission credits and offsets in the carbon market and from the harvest of environmentally certified timber. SFM's Board of Directors and Advisory Board include world leaders in business, financial markets, conservation, emerging market investment, science and human rights. SFM intends to be both a first mover in the carbon marketplace and to set the world standard for investment in tropical and subtropical forest areas.

• Carbon Markets: the Forest Dimension

Volans

Focusing on the business of social innovation, Volans is part think-tank, part consultancy and part broker. Their work is divided into three areas: innovation lab, client services and outreach

• The Biosphere Economy - Natural Limits Can Spur Creativity, Innovation and Growth

WestLB

WestLB AG is a European commercial bank with firm roots in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany’s largest federal state. It is one of Germany’s leading financial services providers. It is the central institution for the savings banks in North Rhine-Westphalia and Brandenburg, and as an internationally operating commercial bank it acts as their link to the global financial markets. Working in close partnership with the savings banks, WestLB offers the full range of products and services of a universal bank, focusing on lending, structured finance, capital market and private equity products, asset management, transaction services and real estate finance. WestLB employs over 5,000 staff.

• A Commentary on the Product-Level Standard
• Green ICT – Pink Elephants Or Real Returns?

Z/Yen Group

Z/Yen helps organisations make better choices - our clients consider us a commercial think-tank that spots, solves and acts. Our name combines Zen and Yen - “a philosophical desire to succeed” - in a ratio, recognising that all decisions are trade-offs. Z/Yen’s mission is to be the foremost risk/reward management firm.

• A Portfolio Approach to Climate Change Investment and Policy
• Cap-and-Trade versus Carbon Tax - a Comparison and Synthesis
• The Road to London
• Finance and Water: Where's the Data? - interim document
• Finance and Forestry: Where's the Data? - interim document