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September 2007

The new colour of money

Global warming is the biggest issue facing society. Markets can play a crucial role in combating climate change. Banks see a huge opportunity to be agents for good – and make plenty of money in the process. How big can green finance become? Clive Horwood investigates.


Green finance special focus

Environmentalists at the gates
Caring, not sharing
Eco-magine all the people 
                                                           Al Gore interview: “Markets are the key to climate change”




THE BUYOUT OF US energy concern TXU by a consortium led by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Texas Pacific Group will go down in legend as the high-water mark of the recent private equity boom. The $44 billion deal, the largest leveraged buyout in history, is the RJR/Nabisco of this decade.

As Euromoney went to press in early September, the banks financing TXU were rumoured...


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