We must invest now for a greener future

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http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/related_reports/green_money/article3618770.ece

From Times Online
March 25, 2008

We must invest now for a greener future

The race to combat climate change will only be won if substantial investment into clean energy innovations is made now.

Carbon Trust Investments is a fund management company specialising in investing in emerging clean energy technology businesses, and it is seeing some impressive results. Ominously melting ice-caps, rising sea levels and extreme weather conditions are constant reminders of the intense pressure we’re under to find effective low carbon solutions for modern industry and everyday lifestyles.

British research institutions, inventors, scientists and entrepreneurs are responding with alacrity, and today the UK is proving to be a hotbed of technological innovation in the field of clean energy technology. For those willing to take a degree of risk, there can be financial and ethical rewards for investment in emerging companies that aim to deliver carbon emissions savings.

Demand for bio fuels, fuel cells, solar photovoltaics, wind turbines, wave power technology and energy-efficient industrial technologies, to name just a few areas, is riding high as new legislation drives businesses, industry, and consumers to cut power consumption and switch to renewable energy.

“For fledgling clean energy companies to get into the marketplace and start making revenues and therefore deliver carbon savings, they need to build compelling investment propositions that can attract early stage investors,” explains Jonathan Bryers, an Investment Partner at Carbon Trust Investments. “Meaningful carbon savings will only be achievable once these companies have been scaled up from tiny start-ups to large professionally-run firms turning over hundreds of millions of pounds.”

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