Businesses failing to tap emerging market clean energy opportunity

James S Murray
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As Qatar and US defend climate change records, new figures reveal investment in developing world clean energy projects falling well short of targets

Governments and businesses from industrialised countries invested just $8bn in clean energy projects in developing economies last year, representing just a fraction of the $100bn a year of investment that...

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