Bloomberg New Energy Finance has released its 2009 league table winners, honouring the investors and financial service providers in clean energy and the carbon markets, during the Gala Awards Dinner of the 3rd Annual Bloomberg New Energy Finance Summit in London today.
The 2009 Clean Energy League Tables are based on the largest database of financial transactions in clean energy and carbon markets in the world. Full year figures show that new investment worldwide during 2009 totaled $162 billion, down just 6.8% from 2008. The Clean Energy League Tables have been an essential guide to activity in the sector for four years. They constitute the only quantitative and comprehensive benchmark for identifying the most active and innovative clean energy investors, project financiers, investment banks, funds, carbon off-takers and law firms.
This year, Bloomberg New Energy Finance is honouring 13 organizations as 2009 League Table Award winners, across asset classes ranging from venture capital and private equity, to carbon markets and carbon energy funds.
2009 was not an easy year for investors in clean energy and the carbon markets, with a marked slowdown of activity in the first quarter as a result of the financial crisis. Winning a Bloomberg New Energy Finance League Table Award is hard-earned recognition for the vital role these organisations have played in keeping the flow of finance going throughout the cycle, and so maintaining the global effort to lower carbon emissions, says Michael Liebreich, chief executive of Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Each of these firms is helping lead the charge toward a cleaner energy industry, and ultimately, a lower-carbon economy.
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