The Pew Charitable Trusts reports global investment in the sector grew 6.5% last year to $263bn, slower than the rate of growth over the last eight years. And first-quarter figures from Bloomberg New Energy Finance (NEF) suggest continued slowing. Global clean energy investment was $27bn, down 22% from the first quarter of 2011, and the lowest figure "since the dismal $20bn seen in the first quarter of 2009, when the financial crisis was at its worst", says Bloomberg NEF chief executive Michael Liebreich.
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