Clean energy investment rebounds to highest level since 2012

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Investment clears $66bn in second quarter of 2014, suggesting the sector could end two years of declining investment

Global clean energy investment totalled $66.2bn in the second quarter of this year, its highest point since the end of 2012, according to new figures from analysts Clean Energy Pipeline. The second...

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