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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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With subsistence farmers considered to be the most vulnerable community to the effects of climate change, a majority of whom are women in poor countries, climate justice should be classed as a human rights issue, according to Reid Professor of Law and former Irish stateswoman Mary Robinson. 
Being able to respond rapidly to opportunities and understanding the underlying science is critical in the cleantech sector, according to Natalie Diep, partner at Morrison & Foerster, in her ten tips on making successful investments.
As the true financial impact of the Deepwater Horizon crisis on BP becomes clearer, including plans potentially to reduce the regular dividend from next year, an inconvenient truth about the exposure of our pension funds (and pensions) is emerging. Quite simply, the funds we hope to rely on when we retire are highly dependent on the dividends paid out by high-carbon sectors, especially oil and gas, writes Climate Change Capital's Vivienne Cox.
With liquid fuel accounting for approximately two-thirds of global energy demand and question marks surrounding the short-term viability of many electric vehicles, biofuels look set to provide important alternatives to incumbent sources of fuel for several decades.
South Africa’s government has identified around 20GW of pure renewable energy capacity and 4GW of co-generation technologies that may form part of its renewable energy procurement plan under the region’s feed-in tariff programme. 
Despite some well-documented commercial struggles, fuel cells are beginning to prove themselves as a genuine alternative to traditional energy technologies, with US investors taking a second look at this next generation of opportunities.
Italian transmission operator Terna has reinforced its renewable energy commitment by becoming a shareholder in solar thermal project Desertec, which in turn will gain access to new grid connections in Europe and Africa. 
Germany said it has included the Desertec solar scheme in its long-term vision for future energy needs, demonstrating an ambitious approach towards one of the more visionary low-carbon power projects. 
History is filled with innovators who made less money than the people who sold their inventions, as they lacked distribution methods or sales infrastructure to supply their product to market. Oil super majors look set to make history repeat itself as they begin to pick the winners in the biofuel arena. 
The 470GW Desertec solar energy project has an estimated cost of €400bn. With major European corporations on board, will it have the necessary leverage to get built? 
The $85bn Grand Inga hydroelectric scheme has the potential to meet a third of Africa’s current energy needs, but do investors have the appetite for a project of this scale in a region notorious for its project finance problems? 
Global efforts to tackle climate change by big businesses have stalled over the past year, according to a new report by the Economist Intelligence Unit. 
