The Green Transition Scoreboard

This report from Hazel Henderson and Ethical Markets digs into the amounts invested in clean technologies and the green economy by the private sector, finding more than $1.6 trillion in investments since 2007.

The report breaks down investments in clean and green technologies into five categories, and shows their total investments since 2007 as follow:

• Renewable Energy ($1,147,940,000,000)
• Efficiency & Green Construction ($227,656,000,000)
• Cleantech ($51,877,240,371)
• Smart Grid ($111,331,000,000)
• Corporate R&D ($105,733,039,878)

The Scoreboard also shows year-over-year investments in each sector, which reveal that, despite the Great Recession, investments have stayed steady or grown for each category. Investments in Smart Grid technologies, for instance, grew from $17 billion in 2008 to $25 billion in 2009, and is on pace to reach $29 billion or more in 2010.

For more information about the Scoreboard, visit GreenTransitionScoreboard.com.