Over half of National Wealth Fund investment allocated to clean energy projects

Stuart Stone
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NWF's annual impact report confirms that for every £1m invested, fund is helping to avoid 6,900 tonnes of CO2 equivalent

More than half of the National Wealth Fund's (NWF) £7.5bn investment since 2021 has been focused on clean energy projects or technologies, which have delivered 6.3GW of additional capacity and enough clean...

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