A couple of days ago, my colleague Alex Goldman generously left a special report on business and climate change from The Economist on my desk. Now I share one of the most interesting reads with you.

In "Fairfield v the valley", the magazine examines the different approaches to developing and bringing to market clean/green technologies. It follows the approaches of Vinod Khosla of Khosla Ventures, a VC firm out of Menlo Park, California, and Jeff Immelt, CEO of GE, which is headquartered in Fairfield, CT. The piece concludes that Khosla's involvement is great during the incubation stage but ultimately it's a company of GE's scale that will reap the windfall of those innovations. Isn't that so often the case?

In "Trading thin air", carbon trading comes under the microscope and some fundamental shortcomings are exposed. Well worth the read. You can read more of the articles by going to the issue's homepage (on the right hand side, you may have to scroll a little). If you're short on time, just click the links below.

The Economist - Special report on business and climate change

Cleaning up
Everybody's green now
Trading thin air
Irrational incandescence
Fairfield v the valley
Sunlit uplands
Boom
Dirty king coal
The drive for low emissions
The final cut

Fascinating stuff...