Clear up in the cleantech boom

James McKeigue on the new energy technologies that could transform the way we power our economies - and generate big profits for smart investors.

It doesn't start until next week. But most people already expect the United Nations' climate summit in Durban, South Africa to be a failure. Indeed, one of the few things environmentalists and climate-change sceptics agree on is that nothing significant will come out of the meeting.

How times have changed. Back in 1992, a host of countries signed up to the ground-breaking Kyoto Protocol, agreeing to cut greenhouse gas emissions in a bid to slow global warming. But since then, governments' enthusiasm for grand international deals has waned.

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James McKeigue

James graduated from Keele University with a BA (Hons) in English literature and history, and has a certificate in journalism from the NCTJ. James has worked as a freelance journalist in various Latin American countries.He also had a spell at ITV, as welll as wring for Television Business International and covering the European equity markets for the Forbes.com London bureau. James has travelled extensively in emerging markets, reporting for international energy magazines such as Oil and Gas Investor, and institutional publications such as the Commonwealth Business Environment Report. He is currently the managing editor of LatAm INVESTOR, the UK's only Latin American finance magazine.