Experts warn Bear Stearns crisis could curb cleantech growth

James S Murray
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Cleantech outlook remains bullish, but worsening credit crunch could hit project financing

As share prices around the world continued to fall sharply in the wake of the weekend collapse of US investment bank Bear Stearns, experts today warned that cleantech projects could soon find it significantly...

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