Global Investment in Sustainable Energy Jumped 60 Percent in 2007, Report Says

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The sustainable energy sector last year saw more than $148 billion in new funding worldwide, up 60 percent from 2006, according to a report from the United Nations Environment Program. Climate change worries and rising crude oil prices have created growing interest in renewable energy and energy efficiency mechanisms, said the report, Global Trends in Sustainable Energy Investment 2008. The report, issued July 1, was produced by the London-based New Energy Finance for UNEP's Paris-based Sustainable Energy Finance Initiative. "Just as thousands were drawn to California and the Klondike in the late 1800s, the green energy gold rush is attracting legions of modern day prospectors in all parts of the globe," Achim Steiner, UNEP's executive director, said in a statement made available to BNA.