The future is green

Investment Week announced the winners of its first Climate Change Investment Awards just before Christmas and over the next four pages some of the successful companies are profiled. While Peter McCready and Cherry Reynard make the case for the sector as an emerging and growing asset class

"Despite the onset of the economic downturn the case for investing in low carbon technologies and business models remain compelling" Sir Nicholas Stern - World Future Energy Summit Abu Dhabi 19/01/2009 This month Sir Nicholas Stern, of the eponymous Stern Report on Global Warming, reiterated that the fundamental reasons to invest in climate change have not altered despite the impact of the credit crunch. Mark Hoskin, partner at wealth manager Holden & Partners, and one of the judges of the Climate Change Investment Awards, says: "Before [the crunch] P/E ratios where running away, ofte...