How to clean up with renewable energy

The world’s energy demands are set to jump by 50% over the next 20 years. Now, the Kyoto protocol is encouraging countries to focus on alternative power generation, writes Tim Bennett.

The world is facing harder times. In the US and increasingly the UK, over-indebted consumers are in terror of falling house prices and a recession.

While analysts cross their fingers and hope the rest of the world can decouple' from US woes, you'd have to be very optimistic to believe that export-dependent Asia can ignore America.

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Tim graduated with a history degree from Cambridge University in 1989 and, after a year of travelling, joined the financial services firm Ernst and Young in 1990, qualifying as a chartered accountant in 1994.

He then moved into financial markets training, designing and running a variety of courses at graduate level and beyond for a range of organisations including the Securities and Investment Institute and UBS. He joined MoneyWeek in 2007.