Renewables boom offers opportunity to insurers

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Study argues more innovative risk instruments needed to help drive investment in renewables

Renewable energy investment is being hampered by the failure of the insurance industry to address "risk gaps" that make it harder for investors to justify support for clean tech projects. That is the...

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