Venture capital firms play clean tech catch up

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Clean tech may account for just a fraction of VCs' activities, but on both sides of the Atlantic things are changing fast

Energy – and the oil that helps produce it – is becoming an increasingly valuable commodity. We may curtail our energy use, but there are so many of us – including rapidly developing, high-population economies...

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