Originally published on RenewEconomy By Sophie Vorrath The Australian CleanTech Index has significantly outperformed the wider market for the full 2015-16 financial year, a new report has shown, capping off a “stellar three years” with returns of nearly 70 per cent for investors that have held the course. The ACT … [continued]
Originally published on RenewEconomy. By Sophie Vorrath Climate change and the risk of stranded assets have been named as two major areas of increasing investor focus and concern in the latest global survey of institutional investors by Ernst & Young. Tomorrow’s Investment Rules 2.0, EY’s second annual survey of more … [continued]
Originally published on Solar Love. Wunder Capital of Boulder, Colorado is making it easy for accredited investors to participate in the booming solar energy business. Up until now, getting in on this lucrative industry has been reserved for companies like Google, Goldman Sachs and Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway. But now … [continued]
Individual investors are looking for ways to make investing more sustainable, according to a new survey conducted by the Morgan Stanley Institute for Sustainable Investing, but many don’t see sustainable investing as cooperative with financial gains. These were the key findings from the Sustainable Signals: The Individual Investor Perspective report, published … [continued]
Common thinking over the past decade has been that the current trend in renewable energy investment will only continue to grow as Generation-Y babies grow and start making their own financial decisions. However, a new report published by Green Alliance and sponsored by Hermes Fund Managers has concluded that Generation … [continued]
The United Nations Environment Programme released a report yesterday that responds to a 2013 report on the potentially crippling costs of climate change in Africa. At an October meeting in Gabarone last year, the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment endorsed the Africa Adaptation Gap Report, which identified these costs. The new … [continued]
Originally published on Desmog Canada. By Carol Linnitt If you’ve come across any of the recent headlines on the release of the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, you’re probably feeling pretty low. The doom and gloom levels were off the charts. And understandably so. Major nations across the globe – … [continued]
Along with earlier wrap-ups of cleantech politics news and solar and wind energy news, here’s a wrap-up of some other cleantech news of the past week or so. Cleantech a Major Reason Why Siemens is Making So Much Money Siemens has beating analysts’ projections of how much money they are … [continued]
[social_buttons] The top 30 industrial groups of South Korea are planning to invest 22.4 trillion won ($18.5 billion) in clean energy projects by 2013, Bloomberg reported this week. This proposed investment, which will be for 2011-2013, is a 48% increase over the past three years (in which they spent 15.1 … [continued]
According to Eric Straser, a partner at Mohr Davidow Ventures and a pioneer in cleantech investing, “In 2009… cleantech…is now garnering nearly 20 percent of all dollars invested by VCs. In 2010, we’ll see public investors get into the action with several IPOs…” So what VC trends should be influencing … [continued]
