{"id":6081,"date":"2011-12-14T00:14:43","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T22:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/12\/qa-what-does-un-climate-deal-mean-for-green-investment\/"},"modified":"2011-12-14T00:14:43","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T22:14:43","slug":"qa-what-does-un-climate-deal-mean-for-green-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/qa-what-does-un-climate-deal-mean-for-green-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"Q+A-What does UN climate deal mean for green investment?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Nina Chestney<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">LONDON<\/span> Dec 13 (Reuters) &#8211; Over 190 countries secured<br \/>\na last-ditch deal on Sunday to save the planet from global<br \/>\nwarming, which should legally bind developed and developing<br \/>\ncountries to greenhouse gas emissions cuts.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Negotiations for the new deal will start next year, and it<br \/>\nshould be signed by 2015 at the latest, but the commitments will<br \/>\nnot take effect until after 2020.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Below are key questions for low-carbon energy investors.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Q. Will the deal boost low-carbon investment?<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A. Not in the short term.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>While a new legally binding deal is being worked out by<br \/>\npoliticians, investments in renewable energy sources such as<br \/>\nwind and solar power will still be affected by the wider<br \/>\neconomic climate, which has made it difficult to raise capital.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is better than nothing but will not open floodgates and<br \/>\nallow vast amounts to be invested in next few years,&#8221; said<br \/>\nRichard Nourse, managing partner at renewable energy investment<br \/>\nfund Novusmodus.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Nina Chestney LONDON Dec 13 (Reuters) &#8211; Over 190 countries secured a last-ditch deal on Sunday to save the planet from global warming, which should legally bind developed and developing countries to greenhouse gas emissions cuts. Negotiations for the new deal will start next year, and it should be signed by 2015 at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-6081","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}