Significant opportunities are emerging for green investors in the US, according to Charlie Thomas, manager of the Jupiter Ecology fund.
Thomas believes the movement of environmental issues into the mainstream in the US is stimulating innovation and producing potentially exciting new investments. He says the US has long been regarded as behind Europe in terms of environmental attitude, enforced by the US government’s refusal to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. “However, during a recent trip to the US, where we met with 30 US and Canadian companies, it became increasingly clear that attitudes towards the environment are changing, not only at the political level but among corporates and consumers too," he says. Thomas considers...
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