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The most active investors in the cleantech, renewable energy and sustainability sectors share their views on the market at the fourth annual LP-GP Forum: Clean Energy & Sustainability.
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Large and publicly traded companies are performing at higher levels when it comes to sustainability and the environment than smaller businesses, due to greater availability of resources and finances to support sustainability programmes, new United Nations (UN) findings have shown. 
Enough biotechnology crops were grown in 2010 worldwide to cover the entire land area of China, just 15 years after they were initially commercialised, new findings show. 
Investing just two per cent of global gross domestic product into ten sustainable sectors would be sufficient to jump-start a low carbon economy and accelerate global gross domestic product, a new United Nations report finds. 
More than two-thirds of companies are planning to increase their commitment to sustainability this year, despite the tough economy, according to a new report. 
Investors risk compromising African communities and the environment by entering into hurried, clandestine or one-sided deals with African nations, the International Institute for Environment and Development has warned. 
The value of private equity and venture capital investment in cleantech companies declined month-on-month in November, erasing two previous months of growth and putting deal volume and value back among the lowest levels recorded this year, according to data compiled by Zephyr and Bureau van Dijk exclusively for NewNet.
A combination of M&A activity, alliances and invested capital means the home energy hardware and software business is rapidly developing. Although still in its infancy, its ability to connect with the smart grid sector makes for a compelling argument.
The increased level of complexity in the smart grid industry requires an enhanced level of control, according to a report by PricewaterhouseCoopers.
The practice of ‘land grabbing’ in Africa to meet biofuels demand in northern countries is underestimated and out of control putting both the host countries rural land use and international investment at risk, according a new report. 
Despite the global recession driving energy consumption lower in 2009 than the previous year, power usage is on the rise in developing nations according to BP's 2010 Statistical Review of World Energy. 
