2010Mar26: China invested $34.6 billion in renewable energy technologies in 2009, while the US invested $18.6 billion in renewable energy technologies in 2009, according to researchers at the Pew Charitable Trusts (BBC, 2010).
Reference: BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8587319.stm
Read the Pew Charitable Trust Report Who’s Winning the Clean Energy Race? Growth, Competition and Opportunity in the World’s Largest Economies and Press Release http://www.pewtrusts.org/news_room_detail.aspx?id=57972
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