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Global renewables sector tops 5.7 million jobs
2013-06-12 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has today confirmed global investment in renewable energy slowed down last year, even as deployment in key technologies and markets continued to accelerate. The agency has this afternoon published two major reports on progress in the renewables industry, which echo previous studies showing investment fell 12 per cent last year to $244bn, primarily as a result of the drastic fall in the cost of solar and wind power and policy uncertainty in several industrialised...
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