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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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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. 
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? 
The UK has a legally binding obligation to derive 20 per cent of its energy from renewable sources by 2020, which means delivering an almost a seven-fold increase in the share of renewables in little over a decade. Dr Ralph Rayner, sector director, energy and environment at consultancy BMT Group says although developments in clean energy span a number of technologies, little of marine energy's potential has been fully realised. 
Offshore Renewable Energy Installations (OREIs) are one of the biggest changes to sea area use since the oil and gas boom of the 1970s and 1980s. Michael Starling, principal consultant at BMT Renewables, a subsidiary of BMT Group, explains the different elements developers must navigate to gain approval for their offshore projects. 
A Brazilian federal judge has put a halt to the construction of the $11bn Belo Monte hydroelectric dam, which was set to be the third-largest of its kind in the world, a move applauded by both environmentalists and international celebrities alike. 
At this year's Private Equity and Venture Capital Clean Energy Investor Forum, former CalPERS CIO and founder of green investment firm C Change Investments, Russell Read, highlighted the scale of opportunity for investors in renewable energy and clean technologies. 
