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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. 
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. 
Each year scientists around the world have millions of ideas, but only a few are able to keep their heads above water in the cleantech market. These technologies are there because they were able to prove their feasibility and profitability. 
The US Virgin Islands have committed to the goal of reducing fossil fuels by 60 per cent in the next 15 years, prompting the region to become a test bed on how to integrate so much renewables on to the grid. 
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. 
A long-standing conservatism within an industry dominated by large industrial companies can present barriers to new innovation in the water management sector. But for forward-thinking investors, novel technologies offering solutions to water scarcity problems could prove a lucrative endeavour. 
Within the current uncertain economic and political environment with highly volatile markets, investors are turning their attention more and more to established companies with solid balance sheets, good dividend yields and a product offering that helps customers to become more efficient and competitive. 
Data from the US Department of Energy shows that the National Renewable Energy Laboratory leads all DOE national labs when it comes to working with businesses on research and development efforts to commercialise cutting-edge technologies. 
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. 
Trying to reconcile the unprecedented demand we are facing for upgrading and expanding wastewater treatment with the limited funds available calls for innovation, with both new techniques and technologies to be developed and deployed, writes Bluewater Bio’s David Lloyd Owen. 
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. 
Last week the Irish Times published an article stating that Ireland was losing out on the ocean energy race, with its Celtic neighbour Scotland taking the lead. As an Irishman leading a Scottish wave energy company, it pains me to say that I agree, writes Aquamarine Power CEO Martin McAdam. 
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. 
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. 
As a new report finds that Australia will need to invest AUD370bn ($330bn) to become a 100 per cent renewable energy nation by 2020, cleantech policies are likely to be central to the country’s upcoming election on 21 August. 
With the installation of the South West Regional Development Agency’s Wave Hub marine energy project already underway, CEO of Ocean Power Technologies Charles Dunleavy tells NewNet that competition in the marine energy industry needs to be fostered to ensure its development going forward. 
