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US Energy storage company talks of future funding plans - 23 May 2012
Application developer for the solar industry outlines future financial plans - 23 May 2012
US biofuel developer seeks $2m in investment - 22 May 2012
Australian government opens door for green business with A$10bn fund - 23 May 2012
UK boosts funding for commercial marine developments - 23 May 2012
Environmental energy prize fund tops $4m in Middle East - 23 May 2012
US Energy storage company talks of future funding plans - 23 May 2012Application developer for the solar industry outlines future financial plans - 23 May 2012US biofuel developer seeks $2m in investment - 22 May 2012Advanced materials developer announces possible fundraising opportunity - 22 May 2012Smart home system developer plans £2m fundraise - 21 May 2012
Italian wind developer to raise between €4m and €5m - 21 May 2012 Australian government opens door for green business with A$10bn fund - 23 May 2012
UK boosts funding for commercial marine developments - 23 May 2012
Environmental energy prize fund tops $4m in Middle East - 23 May 2012
India solar rooftop project up for sale - 23 May 2012
Brazilian bio unit of Louis Dreyfus Commodities files for IPO - 22 May 2012
Chinese solar company undertakes IPO, stocks hold steady - 22 May 2012
As a small, maritime trading nation Britain has always been quite a way away from key international markets. Our ability to visit far off places and people, and their access to us, has always been at the very heart of the UK’s ability to ‘punch above our weight in the world’, whether that’s commercially, culturally or diplomatically, writes Ben Caldecott, head of European policy at investment firm Climate Change Capital.
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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Environmental investment company Impax Asset Management Group has been awarded a mandate worth AUS$50m ($46m) from Australia’s Local Government Super, a local government superannuation fund. 
China is to publish an investment plan that will see new energy sectors receive RMB5tr ($739bn) of funding by 2020, according to reports. 
Aqua Resources Fund, a closed-end investment scheme managed by FourWinds Capital Management, has announced a further £2m investment in portfolio company and wastewater treatment specialist Bluewater Bio International. 
Waste-to-energy company Monsal has secured £14m in expansion capital from asset manager FourWinds Capital Management’s Water Resources Fund. 
Waste treatment and renewable energy business New Earth Solutions Group said its investment fund has delivered a return of 23.5 per cent since it was launched two years ago. 
Neil Woodford, head of investment at UK-based Invesco Perpetual, will not make commitments to the renewable energy sector unless there is greater certainty over government policy and increased guaranteed returns. 
Green private equity is on the agenda of virtually all institutional investors, with more than 90 per cent wanting exposure to the sector, according to a new survey by New Energy World Network. 
Australia’s new Prime Minister Julia Gillard has pledged record spending in the renewable energy industry in a national address. 
Cleantech private equity firm WHEB Ventures has invested €10.8m into German recycled plastics processing and products business Friedola Tech. 
US President Barack Obama has committed nearly $2bn to solar projects as he further signals his intention to move the US to a clean energy economy. 
The renewable energy arm of Portugese utility EDP has secured $141m of institutional equity financing from Wells Fargo Wind Holdings in exchange for an interest in its Vento III portfolio of wind farms. 
Climate Change Capital (CCC), the environmental investment manager and advisory group, has fully invested its property fund (CCPF) by acquiring the property 40 Springardens in Manchester, UK. 
Prudent Energy, a clean energy storage company that has offices in both North America and China, has added another $10m in venture capital funding to top off its Series C round. 
Polish small-to-medium sized enterprises (SME) operating in the energy efficiency and small-scale renewable energy space may soon get a €150m boost under new proposals by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. 
The value of private equity and venture capital investment in the cleantech sector more than tripled in May 2010 to $1,22bn from $352m in April 2010, boosted by an institutional buyout worth $800m, according to a report from ZEPHYR and Bureau van Dijk, compiled exclusively for NewNet. 
US political and corporate heavyweights including Microsoft founder Bill Gates and General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt have formed an alliance to lobby government into investing more than $16bn a year of clean energy innovation. 
Italy must invest heavily if it is to meet its renewable energy targets, the president of energy group EDF EN Italia Bruno D'Onghia told NewNet. 
Global investments in the renewable energy industry are likely to increase to $653.35bn by 2015, according to figures released from intelligence provider GBI Research. 
US clean energy investors are eyeing investments in downstream companies as they remain bullish on the service side of the business. 
China has taken the top spot as the country with the highest level of investment in clean energy industries overtaking the US for the first time, according to a report by the Pew Charitable Trust. 
