That is precisely the bet being made by the giant venture capital fund Kleiner Perkins with its billion-dollar-plus green fund.
Dare one ask whether Friedman, who is rich from his best sellers, is an investor in the Kleiner Perkins green fund?
We agreed to further consider proposals for the establishment of international funding arrangements, including the proposal by Mexico for a Green Fund.
But the one I consider to be the best, the Gabelli SRI Green Fund ( SRIGX) was nowhere to be seen, despite the fact that it returned 12.1% in 2010.
The company's investors, which include Richard Branson's Virgin Green Fund and an investment fund tied to the Walton family, "have the resources to support this company as we ramp, " Gronet said.
Continuing frozen credit markets would "change the trajectory of growth" for companies like Solyndra, said Anup Jacob, a Solyndra board member and partner with the Virgin Green Fund in San Francisco.
"While we focused on getting the finances in order and introducing a culture of cash-flow management, we let the Jains do what they knew best--make and sell their products, " says Jacob, now a partner at Richard Branson's renewables-focused Virgin Green Fund in San Francisco.
It's already made one investment with its bio-defense fund and five investments in the Green Techologies fund.
The Cancun summit agreed to establish an international Green Climate Fund that is supposed to provide much of that support.
So, while appearing to be prudent and high minded, Green Century Fund positions itself as an alert meter for ambulance chasing tort lawyers.
For example, the Green Climate Fund could, if well-designed, be an important venue to raise funds and drive additional investments from capital markets.
Within the talks themselves, you can add a lack of trust, debates over equity and historical responsibility, and the empty chest that is the Green Climate Fund.
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Segrich manages the top-performing Gabelli SRI Green Growth Fund (SRIGX).
In its green technologies fund (better known in Silicon Valley these days as "clean technology"), Kleiner Perkins is treading a similar path taken by global giants like General Electric and U.K. oil company BP, both of which have made investments in renewable technologies including wind and solar.
In its green technologies fund (better known in Silicon Valley these days as "clean technology"), Kleiner Perkins is treading a similar path taken by global giants like General Electric (nyse: GE - news - people ) and U.K. oil company BP (nyse: BP - news - people ), both of which have made investments in renewable technologies including wind and solar.
Liberal Democrat MSP Liam McArthur's amendment, which said the UK Government's plans for a Green Investment Bank to fund low-carbon transport and energy schemes would benefit Scotland's efforts to build a low-carbon economy, was passed without opposition with 75 MSPs voting for it and with 46 MSPs abstaining.
Environmental groups like the Solar Electric Light Fund, which brings green energy to impoverished areas of the globe, have been featured on Philanthroper.
Green MSP Patrick Harvie said the fund was a small step in the right direction, but said far more money would have to be spent.
And major green groups like the Environmental Defense Fund have begun collaborating with industry leaders to educate the public about the various benefits of this fuel.
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Second place was the Winslow Green Growth ( WGGFX) mutual fund (7.4% return), which is one of what I consider to be the three best clean energy mutual funds.
The Alger firm has added a purely eco-friendly fund to its lineup, Spectra Green, that avoids some of the browner companies (like National Oilwell Varco) that other Alger funds indulge in.
One item that's dropped off the agenda is the Report and Third Reading stages of the Energy Bill - the "green deal" which will allow people to fund energy saving home improvements from the savings to their gas and electricity bills.
As companies seek to win credibility for their efforts at reducing emissions, they are inviting mainstream green groups such as Washington's Environmental Defence Fund to advise them and to keep them honest.
And hedge fund titan David Einhorn has publicly dismissed Green Mountain as an overvalued stock backed by poor management: Since Einhorn first spoke last fall, Green Mountain stock lost nearly three-quarters of its value.
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Starbucks has a distribution deal with Green Mountain Coffee, which remains under fire after hedge fund manager David Einhorn presented his case for shorting the stock.
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Labour says the failure of the government's economic policy is undermining its agenda and its Green Investment Bank will not have full borrowing powers to fund low-carbon projects until 2016.
In fact, Green Mountain has been pressured by short sellers since hedge-fund manager David Einhorn of Greenlight Capital questioned company business practices last month.
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Green MSP Patrick Harvie welcomed the announcement of the Climate Justice Fund and called for more details of the Climate Justice Fund to be brought forward, saying it "must be additional to what the UK and Scottish governments are currently doing on international development".
The hedge fund manager has taken two different opportunities to whack at Green Mountain and criticize company management.
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The German Constitutional Court had just given the green light for the ESM - the eurozone's permanent bailout fund - to go ahead.
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