Summary
The climate change investment agenda, we believe, has deepened
and broadened since the launch of the HSBC Climate Change
Indices in September 2007. Overall, low-carbon sources of power
generation have become more attractive, while high fuel costs have
underlined the win-win rationale for ramping up energy efficiency.
Climate change is also set to be a major driver of additional
investment in the water sector. The carbon markets have doubled in
size, but remain exposed to policy risk. The positive scientific,
business and policy momentum built up in 2007 is now faced with
the realpolitik of negotiations and a global economic slowdown,
suggesting an uncertain path to the culmination of climate talks in
Copenhagen next year.
Content
- Introduction 6
- Changing the odds 8
- The low-carbon energy
- production sector 17
- Renewable energy 21
- Bio-energy 23
- Hydro, tidal and wave 27
- Geothermal 30
- Solar 33
- Wind 37
- Nuclear 40
- Energy efficiency and
- management sector 44
- Buildings efficiency 46
- Industrial efficiency 54
- Transport efficiency 58
- Energy storage 67
- Fuel cells 69
- Water, waste and pollution
- control 72
- Water 73
- Waste management 77
- Pollution control 80
- Climate finance 81
- Outlook 87
- Appendix 1 95
- Disclosure appendix 98
- Disclaimer 99
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