A December 8, 2010 report by the Pew Charitable Trust predicts that the clean power sector will be worth $2.3 trillion by 2020. Add in Impact Investments and some MBAs and it could be worth much more than that.
Tired of getting the runaround to simple questions about where one can invest environmentally??
Brokers and other investment professionals, when pressed past their first few evasive answers, will not deny that there is no good answer to the question of where to look for information about investing environmentally. Professionally they don't follow environmental stocks and so the sector has few specialists. The environmentally minded investor can expect to experience a mild to extreme frustration looking for information. Stock markets are a tremendous fund raising venue for companies, old established ones as well as new IPO's. Maybe the emergence of wind and solar companies and public interest in such will create the emergence of broker analysts whose jobs are focussed on the environmental sector (as has happened in Europe). When that happens it will open up the markets to environmentally minded investments and investors. I doubt that ever in the history of the financial world there ever has been so large a reserve of potential investment capital left as untapped and unexploited as is represented by the environmental business sector. Our economies are simply based on production and dumping ones waste byproduct in the nearest river, and not on the overall picture of production, conservation, and the environment. Interestingly there are a number of large industrial companies (in Canada as well as elsewhere) now getting into the environmental game. Pretty soon having an environmental sector to invest in may be part of life. You will notice that nowhere on this site is there any advice given to buy any particular stock. This is an information site only. This site is also about Triple Bottom Line Investing and the business-environment polarity.
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Note, if one goes to 'google finance' and puts 'solar' into the box to look up companies there are now 972 companies listed there to research (December 18, 2010). The growth of the renewable energy and clean tech sectors has been phenominal.
Note, between internet search capabilities and wind & solar ETFs being available it is now relatively easy to find and research renewable energy and clean tech stocks and investment choices. It has been great fun over the years building this site. Am now looking to start a venture capital company.
Where the money goes, there goes the world.
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