IFC - an overview; IFC in Latin America; IFC and climate change (from risk to opportunity); IFC- why do we care?; Insurance Requirements? IFC's Approach; Risk modeling - the future; Climate-related Products...

Although international programs for carbon osets play an important role incurrent and prospective climate change policy, they continue to be very controver-sial. Assymmetric information creates several incentive problems, include adverseselection and moral hazard, in oset markets. The current...

The paper examines what impact different design options of emissions trading have on the innovation process in the electric power industry. Recent concepts of innovation research in evolutionary economics are reviewed and investment cycles in the German power sector are examined before taking a...

There is currently much hope about environmental innovation and green technologies, notablyas a response to the threat of climate change. This paper offers a critical perspective on the roleof technological innovation to solving environmental problems, based on considering empiricaleconomic...

This paper provides an overview of current government schemes promoting corporate reporting of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and analyses their main building blocks. It describes the drivers and challenges for governments, companies and investors in dealing with GHG reporting and includes 4...

This paper shows that, when the price of emission allowances is sufficiently high, emission trading schemes improve the emission efficiency of highly polluting firms. The efficiency gain comes from a relative decrease in emissions rather than a relative increase in operating revenue. Part of the...