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The Green Bank - an opportunity for innovation in the Financial Services

August 13th, 2009 · No Comments

Our recent blog on the move towards a Green Bank has been explored further by our colleagues at Mckinsey in a recent article in the Mckinsey Quarterly.
The underlying hypothesis that we put forward was that climate change will be a massive wealth creation event, not a wealth destruction event. This argument is now starting to [...]

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Tags: Cleantech · Financial services · Sustainability · environment

Funding Cleantech

August 11th, 2009 · 1 Comment

One of the fundamental challenges facing any new energing technology is funding. It is the Rubicon for any startup business.
With any emergent technology, acceptance by investors follows your classic product lifecycle. Early adoptors, mainstream and laggards. The Cleantech industry finds itself in the early adopter (acceptor) stage just when th world needs it to be [...]

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Tags: Cleantech · Financial services · Government · Sustainability · environment