Global clean energy investment rallies, but UK market plummets

Will Nichols
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UK clean energy investment drops from $3.1bn a year ago to $789m, despite global recovery in investment levels

Global clean energy investment is 16 per cent higher so far this year than at the same point in 2013, but signs of a worldwide recovery following two years of decline across the sector did not extend to...

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