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A number of government agencies and research bodies have joined forces to bring critical water solutions to meet Israel’s growing resource needs, writes Israel NewTech’s Merav Ankori. 
In a small English village a local health centre has placed its first patient on its network of smart electricity meters, highlighting the breadth of potential the smart grid space holds, writes sector specialist Memoori. 
Company heads in the cleantech industry claim that there is a knowledge gap between innovators and investors, which sometimes slows down and even blocks money from flowing into the sector. 
UK waste-to-energy specialist Bio Group has this week broken ground on a new renewable gas facility. Here, CEO Steve Sharratt says that while political wrangling in Durban is all very well, governments should focus on how sustainable technology can drive economic opportunities. 
While developed countries remain focused on slowing demand and cutting costs, a growing requirement for energy within the emerging markets now appears to be the main driving force behind renewable energy and cleantech investment. 
With a growing focus on decentralised energy generation and private power generation in emerging economies, biomass gasification could provide a timely solution to South Africa’s beleaguered energy industry. 
Many countries are seeking to move in a greener direction for their energy needs and incorporate more renewable energy sources into their energy portfolio. But with countries such as Germany turning away from nuclear, there is now a ticking clock counting down efforts to deploy critical clean technologies, writes digital prototyping specialist Autodesk. 
As we move to a low carbon energy system we need to decide who are the best agents for efficiently deploying the vast amounts of capital required, as well as how those agents should receive the information that tells them what to do and how to do it, writes Ian Temperton, head of advisory at Climate Change Capital. 
The recent EMR White Paper from the UK’s Department of Energy and Climate Change introduces the most sweeping and ambitious reforms of the British electricity markets for 30 years, including up to £110bn of new investment over the next decade, writes Adam Langridge, a partner in Squire Sanders’ Energy Industry Group. 
The UK government’s plans to fast-track the development of a number of nuclear plants may prove too expensive and they go against progress made by the renewable energy sector as well current world opinion about the safety of the technology, writes Lee Summers, director of EOS Energy. 
International climate financing mechanisms need to go beyond treating climate change as another generic emerging market risk financing problem and should support ‘real economy’ signals which address the externality, writes Rupert Edwards, head of policy and market analysis, carbon finance, at Climate Change Capital. 
In spite of initial scepticism surrounding the capability of electric vehicles (EVs) and concerns over range anxiety, they are more than capable of meeting the needs of drivers that require efficient urban transportation, a new study has found. 
There are a number of clean technology developers around the globe that seem to have accomplished the unthinkable, and none more so than those developing technologies that produce energy or fuel from nothing but air. 
Environmental problems extend across international boundaries, but there are no effective international institutions to deal with them properly. The result is that problems worsen and attempts by countries to solve them fail due to the lack of an institutional framework within which to build the necessary international consensus and trust, writes Stephen Hockman QC. 
Within the cleantech venture capital landscape, we hear the common accusation that cleantech companies are too capital-intensive and too reliant on government incentives, writes Harold Wiener, general partner at Israeli venture capital firm Terra Venture Partners. While there is some truth to this claim, some cleantech investors are increasingly choosing to fund technologies that avoid this pitfall. 
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.
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.
