World's cleanest companies defy Trump to out perform fossil fuel investments

Madeleine Cuff
clock • 4 min read

Stock value of Clean200 list, which ranks firms according to their clean energy revenues, overtook fossil fuel benchmark on inauguration day and finishes first year with a 16.9 per cent return

A survey conducted earlier this month by banking giant Morgan Stanley suggests investors are still sceptical of the financial muscle low-carbon industries can flex. Of 1,000 active individual investors...

To continue reading this article...

Join BusinessGreen

In just a few clicks you can start your free BusinessGreen Lite membership for 12 months, providing you access to:

  • Three complimentary articles per month covering the latest real-time news, analysis, and opinion from Europe’s leading source of information on the Green economy and business
  • Receive important and breaking news stories via our daily news alert
  • Our weekly newsletter with the best of the week’s green business news and analysis

Join now

 

Already a BusinessGreen member?

Login

More on Energy

COP31: Campaign groups call for guardrails to ensure '35 by 35' electrification goal is 'done right'

COP31: Campaign groups call for guardrails to ensure '35 by 35' electrification goal is 'done right'

Open letter to COP Presidencies welcomes proposed '35 by 35' target, but argues equitable and renewables-led policies are needed to avoid electrification becoming 'the Trojan horse of our times'

Stuart Stone
clock 25 September 2026 • 5 min read
How a global push to 'repower' ageing wind and solar farms could transform the clean energy transition

How a global push to 'repower' ageing wind and solar farms could transform the clean energy transition

Ageing wind and solar capacity that is approaching the end of its initial lifespan is set to have 'profound' implications for the global energy transition, according to Wood Mackenzie

Michael Holder
clock 25 September 2026 • 6 min read
Levi's and M&S launch joint push to boost fashion sector renewables use

Levi's and M&S launch joint push to boost fashion sector renewables use

Fashion Renewable Collaborative backed by Schneider Electric's SE Advisory Services unveiled at New York Climate Week

Stuart Stone
clock 23 September 2026 • 3 min read