Wavering economic confidence hits clean tech investment

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But clean tech venture capital investment for first three quarters of 2010 already ahead of $5.69bn invested during whole of 2009

After recovering strongly during the first half of the year, venture capital investment in clean tech firms slowed during the third quarter, according to new figures which suggest concerns over the health...

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