Index
ABN Amro
accounting (for climate change)
Acid Rain Program (U.S.)
adaptation (to climate change)
AgCert
agriculture
AIG
Algeria
American Electric Power
A. M. Best
Angola
Annex 1 countries (Kyoto Protocol)
defined
Antarctica
Aon Ltd.
Argentina
Arizona
Arrhenius, Svante
Assigned Amount Units
Association of British Insurers
Australia
Austria
automotive industry. See also BMW; Daimler/Chrysler; Ford; General Motors; Honda; Toyota
aviation. See also BA BA
Bangladesh
banking. See financial services sector Bank of Montreal
Ballard Fuels
Belgium
Bequerel, Edmund
Berlin
biofuels. See energy
biomass. See energy
BMW
Bolivia
Boxes:
AEP’s Response to Shareholder Activism
Benefit from Trading Emission Reduction Credits
Carbon Audit of Henderson’s Global Care Income Fund
Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Pilot Project by Vattenfall
Climate Change and Financial Reporting-an Accounting Perspective, by Alan Willis and Julie Desjardins
The Concept and Use of Biofuels
The Difficulty of Putting a Price on Carbon
Gas-to-Liquid Technologies and Strategic Diesel Fuel
HSBC: The World’s First Carbon Neutral Bank
London, U.K.: Traffic Congestion Charge
Swiss Re Provides Insurance for CDM
Trading Through Joint Implementation
Trading Through the Clean Development Mechanism
William Tharp: Invited Author’s Comment on the Carbon Project Financing Continuum
Winnipeg, Manitoba’s Flood Adaptation Measures
BP
Brazil
Browne, Lord John
built environment
Bush, President George W.
California:
Air Resources Board (CARB)
bird deaths from wind turbines
carbon capture and storage
electricity blackouts
emission standards
geothermal energy
greenhouse gas caps
lawsuits and automakers
pension funds
solar initiative
Camco
Canada
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants
cap-and-trade mechanism
Carbon Disclosure Project
Carbon Trust (The)
carbon:
carbon brokers. See also AgCert; Camco; CO2.com; EcoEnergy; EcoSecurities; Evolution Markets; Natsource; Trading Emissions Plc. carbon capture and storage
carbon dioxide
emissions factors
carbon exchanges
carbon finance (definition of)
carbon funds. See also Climate Exchange carbon information systems
carbon intensity
defined
carbon management (defined)
carbon offset markets. See also Chicago Climate Exchange; Climate Care carbon, personal allowances
carbon policies
carbon price
carbon profile
carbon sequestration
carbon tax
Cargill
catastrophe bonds
triggers
cement industry
Certified Emission Reduction credits (CERs)
Chevron/Texaco
Chicago Board of Trade
Chicago Climate Exchange
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
China
Cinergy Corporation
Citadel Investment Group
Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)
CDM bottleneck
“cleantech” (clean technology)
Climate Care
climate change
and national sovereignty
Climate Change Levy (U.K.)
Climate Exchange Plc
climate policies
coal. See energy
CO2.com
Coca-Cola
combined heat and power (CHP)
compliance and enforcement (EU ETS)
ConocoPhillips
Connecticut
corporate environmental reporting
credit rating agencies. See also A. M. Best; Fitch; Moody’s; Standard & Poor
Daimler-Chrysler
Defra (U.K. Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
Denmark
Dexia Capital
dispute resolution (for carbon finance)
Dominican Republic
Duke Power
EcoEnergy
EcoSecurities
Ecuador
El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO)
emissions trading
Enbridge
energy:
biofuels. See also Cargill
biomass (modern)
coal. See also American Electric Power; Duke Energy; Vattenfall
energy chain
energy transition
geothermal
hydroelectric power (HEP)
natural gas. See also Enbridge
nuclear power
oil
oil sands. See also BP; Chevron/Texaco; ConnocoPhilips; ExxonMobil; Shell
renewable energy
security
solar energy
tidal and wave energy
wind energy
Energy Production Tax Credit (U.K.)
Enhanced Analytics Initiative
environmental security
Equator Principles
equity research
Estonia
European Climate Exchange
European Federation of Energy Traders
European Union/Europe
European Union Emissions Trading Scheme
New Entrant Reserve
Evolution Markets
Excel Energy
Exxon Mobil
fiduciary responsibility
financial services sector
banking. See also ABN Amro; Bank of Montreal; Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce; Fortis; HSBC; Toronto Dominion Bank; UBS investment. See also Goldman Sachs; MissionPoint Capital; Quantum Leap Co.
institutional investors
speculative investors
insurance. See also Association of British Insurers; AIG; Aon; Lloyds; Marsh & McLennan; Munich Re, Swiss Re
and emissions trading
and weather derivatives
mutual funds
Finland
Firor, John
fisheries
Fitch
Ford Motor Co.
forestry
Fortis
Fourier, Joseph
France
fuel cells. See also Ballard Fuels
General Agreement on Accounting Principles (GAAP)
General Electric
General Motors
geothermal. See energy Germany
Girardet, Herbert
Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)
global warming and the greenhouse effect
Goldman Sachs
Greece
greenhouse gases
accidental discharges
defined
Greenhouse Gas Protocol
green housekeeping
Greenland
Grove, William
Gulf Stream
Haiti
Hansen, Jim
health (and climate change)
heat waves
hedge funds
Henderson Global Investors
Honda
Honduras
“hot air”
HSBC
Hungary
hurricanes
Hurricane Andrew
Hurricane Katrina
hydroelectric power. See energy
hydrogen economy
Iceland
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Initial Public Offering (IPO)
India
Indonesia
Innovest Strategic Value Advisors
Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC)
insurance. See financial services sector
integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC)
International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI)
International Emissions Trading Association (IETA)
International Finance Corporation
International Swaps and Derivatives
Association (ISDA)
International Transaction Log (Kyoto Protocol)
investment. See financial services sector
Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR)
Iran
Iraq
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Japan
Joint Implementation (JI)
Kazakhstan
Keeling, C. D.
Kyoto Protocol. See Annex 1 countries
Latvia
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)
Leicester, U.K.
Linking Directive (EU ETS)
Lloyds of London
London
London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR)
London: proposed desalination plant
London Stock Exchange: Alternative Investment Market
London Traffic Congestion Charge
Los Angeles
Lyme Disease
Madagascar
Maine
malaria
Maldives
Malta National Allocation Plan
management’s discussion and analysis (MD&A)
marginal abatement cost (MAC)
market transformation
Marsh & McLennan
Meeting of the Parties (Montreal MOP)
Melbourne
Mexico
Minneapolis
Minnesota
MissionPoint Capital Partners
mitigation (of climate change)
Moody’s
Munich Re
municipalities (and climate change)
mutual funds. See financial services sector
National Allocation Plans (EU ETS)
National Association of Insurance Commissioners (U.S.)
Natsource
natural gas. See energy
Nebraska
Netherlands
Newcombe, Ken
New Jersey
New York (State)
New York City
New Zealand
Nigeria
non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
North Korea
Norway
nuclear power. See energy
Ohio
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
oil and gas industry
PepsiCo
Philippines
platforms (for trading carbon)
polar regions (and climate change)
Point Carbon
Portugal
power industry
and weather derivatives
project finance
Qatar
Quantum Leap Company
real estate
Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (U.S.)
renewable energy. See energy renewable portfolio standards
Revelle, Roger
risk:
basis, business
climate risk
competitive
corporate climate risk
counterparty
legal
physical (from climate change)
performance risk (for CDM projects)
regulatory
reputational
risk transfer
RNK Capital
Romania
Ross River virus
Russia
RWE
San Diego
Sandor, Richard
Sarbanes-Oxley Act (U.S.)
Saudi Arabia
Scotland
shareholders resolutions (on climate change)
shareholder value
Shell
Slovenia
socially responsible investment (SRI)
solar energy. See energy South Africa
South Korea
Spain
Standard Bank Group
Standard & Poor’s
Stark Investment Management
Stern, Sir Nicholas
Suess, Hans
Sweden
Swiss Re
Switzerland
technology transfer. See also CDM. Tesco
Texas
Thames Water Plc
Tharp, William
tidal and wave energy. See energy Toronto
Toronto Dominion Bank
tourism
Toyota
Trading Emissions Plc
transportation
Trucost Plc
Tudor Investment Capital
Tuvalu
UBS
Uganda
U.K. Climate Impact Programme
U.K. historic greenhouses gas emissions
U.K. National Allocation Plan
U.K. Operating and Financial Review (OFR)
U.K. Pension Disclosure Regulation (2000)
Ukraine
United Kingdom. See also London, Leicester, Scotland, Wales.
United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP)
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC)
United States
United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA)
United States Energy Production Tax Credit
United States National Academy of Sciences
United States National Research Council
Universities Superannuation Scheme (U.K.)
UPS
value chain
Vattenfall
vector-borne diseases
Venezuela
venture capital
verification (of emission reductions)
Vertis
Wales
water supply and treatment industry. See also RWE; Thames Water Plc.
water for cooling power stations
weather derivatives
Weather Risk Management Association (WRMA)
West Nile virus
wind energy. See energy
windstorms
Winnipeg, Canada
Woking, U.K.
World Bank
Prototype Carbon Fund
World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
World Meteorological Organisation (WMO)
World Resources Institute
Yorkshire drought