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Jon Cloke - Low Carbon Energy for Development Network (LCEDN) SMEs and clean energy for emerging markets: challenges and opportunities: How can academic research and evidence support the activities of SMEs working in emerging economies?.
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Jon Cloke - Low Carbon Energy for Development Network (LCEDN) SMEs and clean energy for emerging markets: challenges and opportunities: How can academic research and evidence support the activities of SMEs working in emerging economies?
“The expected investment across a wide range of clean technology sectors, just in the world’s developing and emerging economies, will exceed $6.4 trillion over the next decade. Better still, about $1.6 trillion of that total offers an opening for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)” (World Bank 2014, Building Competitive Green Industries: The Climate and Clean Technology Opportunity for Developing Countries)