2021 Global Cleantech 100 Report | 15 December 2020
2021 marks the 12th year of the Global Cleantech 100, our list of the innovative companies poised to take us beyond chaos to the transformation we are all searching for. On the list, you’ll find the most promising ideas in cleantech – the ones best positioned to help us build a more digitized, de-carbonized and resource-efficient industrial future.

50 to Watch 2020 Report | 23 October 2020
Our annual 50 to Watch reports will introduce you to innovative companies with the dedication, technologies and business models that make it possible to fight the climate crisis and make a fair profit. Deployed at scale, their solutions could change our current destructive economy, and put us back on a climate positive path.

APAC 25 2020 Report | 15 September 2020
The APAC 25 is a list of private sustainable innovation companies from across the region that have come to the attention of the wider market and our regional expert panel. The 25 companies on the list are seen as the most likely to have significant impact in a five- to ten-year time frame. Nominations come from the Global Cleantech 100 program (which has over 11,000 companies nominated) and an expert panel. Companies that reach publicly recognized global unicorn status ( a valuation of over $1bn) cannot qualify for the list, neither can companies appearing on a recent Global Cleantech 100 list or a prior APAC 25 list. To create the list, we combine the APAC inputs from the Global Cleantech 100 process with the inputs from an APAC 25 expert panel. Companies with the strongest patterns of agreement across all the input points will gain the highest scores.

2020 Global Cleantech 100 Report | 16 January 2020
2020 marks the 11th year of the Global Cleantech 100, our list of the innovative companies poised to make a significant commercial impact in the next five to ten years. On the list, you’ll find the most promising ideas in cleantech – the ones best positioned to help us build a more digitized, de-carbonized and resource-efficient industrial future.

50 to Watch - The Companies Fighting Our Biggest Battles With High-Impact Solutions | 23 September 2019
After a decade of success with our Global Cleantech 100, we are launching 50 to Watch, an annual program designed to surface and recognize the best early-stage companies fighting to get us back on track while turning a profit. In this report, we show how they could change every aspect of how we live, for the better. Together, they form a roadmap to a more sustainable future.

2019 Global Cleantech 100 Report | 28 January 2019
For the tenth year running, Cleantech Group is proud to present the annual Global Cleantech 100 list, our barometer reading of the global innovation community’s shifting views on which companies, and which types of companies, today seem most likely to make significant market impact within the next 5-10 years.

Chubb Whitepaper - Cleantech's Global Balancing Act | 25 January 2019
Constant innovation coupled with explosive expansion leads to new risks. Cleantech companies are expanding into more industries than ever before. This new whitepaper from Chubb was created in partnership with Cleantech Group. It explores insights from a 2018 survey of cleantech CEOs from across the globe and finds answers to key questions about the emergence of a new balance between risk and reward.

Food, Energy, Water Nexus Landscape | 9 January 2019
In collaboration with the Innovation Incubator (IN2), this report aims to identify technology areas where IN2 can support the AgTech sector startup community's activities that intersect with the underlying themes of water conservation, food distribution, and ag production digitization. The report looks to identify technology areas with the greatest potential to address energy consumption, water use and/or greenhouse gas emissions within each of the identified themes that, for a variety of reasons to be explored further, are not currently receiving investment support,, so that IN2 could help them toward commercialization.

Executive Summary: Food, Energy, Water Nexus Landscape | 9 January 2019
This report provides a summary of recommendations for IN2 to support the agtech sector startup community’s activities that intersect with underlying themes of water conservation, food distribution, and ag production digitization.

Sweden in the Global Cleantech Innovation Index 2017 | 25 May 2018
This report aims to summarize the factors that led to Sweden being placed 3rd overall in the 2017 Global Cleantech Innovation Index, before making a critical assessment of how the country could do to claim the top spot by addressing remaining weaknesses and thereby becoming a true global hotspot in continually nurturing and growing cleantech innovation startups at scale.

2018 Global Cleantech 100 Report | 22 January 2018
For the ninth year running, Cleantech Group (CTG) is proud to present the annual Global Cleantech 100 list, our barometer reading of the global innovation community’s shifting views on which companies, and which types of companies, today seem most likely to make significant market impact within the next 5-10 years.

GCIP Country Innovation Profiles 2017 | 15 November 2017
As part of our Global Cleantech Innovation Index programme in 2017, Cleantech Group took a closer look at 8 countries that are participating in the Global Cleantech Innovation Programme (GCIP). The programme, an initiative of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF) is conducted in Armenia, India, Malaysia, Morocco, Pakistan, South Africa, Thailand and Turkey. The GCIP aims to foster innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystems, and to catalyse investment to support and accelerate start-up entrepreneurs towards the development and commercialization of cleantech solutions to protect our global commons. The Global Cleantech Innovation Index 2017 – Global Cleantech Innovation Programme (GCIP) Country Innovation Profiles draw on a wide range of factors and sources, and seeks to answer the question: which of these countries currently have the greatest potential to produce entrepreneurial cleantech start-up companies that will commercialize clean technology innovations over the next 10 years?

Global Cleantech Innovation Index 2017 | 12 June 2017
The Global Cleantech Innovation Index (GCII) programme investigates where, relative to GDP, entrepreneurial clean technology companies are most likely to emerge from over the next 10 years – and why. Drawing on a wide range of factors and sources, the study seeks to answer the same question as the 2012 and 2014 GCII reports, namely: which countries currently have the greatest potential to produce entrepreneurial cleantech start-up companies that will commercialise clean technology innovations over the next 10 years?

2017 Global Cleantech 100 | 24 January 2017
For the eighth year running, Cleantech Group (CTG) is proud to present the annually-refreshed Global Cleantech 100 list, our barometer reading of the global innovation community's shifting views on which companies, and which types of companies, are most likely to have big commercial impact in a 5-10 year timeframe. The companies represent the most innovative and promising ideas in cleantech and that are best positioned to solve tomorrow’s clean technology challenges.

2015 Global Cleantech 100 Report | 18 February 2016
For the seventh year running, Cleantech Group (CTG) is proud to present the annual Global Cleantech 100 list, our barometer reading of the global innovation community’s shifting views on which companies, and which types of companies, are most likely to have big commercial impact in a 5-10 year timeframe.

The Hidden Challenge: What Lies Beneath Clean Tech’s Global Plans | 15 June 2015
For a growing cleantech company, every opportunity comes with a potential risk. How can executives keep those risks from affecting their future? The Chubb Group of Insurance Companies and Cleantech Group sought to answer this question in their new report, The Hidden Challenge: What Lies Beneath Clean Tech’s Global Plans. The report, based on a survey of 300 cleantech executives, reveals that many cleantech companies are putting their success at risk by not implementing robust risk management strategies that support their future plans. Read the report for insight in your peers’ priorities and tips on how to better manage your company’s risks.

European Cleantech Fundraising: Revisited 2015 | 24 April 2015
All leading indicators suggest that that the challenges for fundraising companies are only going to increase in 2013‐14, the focus of this research. Cleantech Group and Georgieff Capital have analyzed this issue and produced this report to help lift the veil on what is really going on and what we anticipate for the funding of new companies in the near‐future (2013‐14).

2014 Global Cleantech 100 Report | 7 October 2014
Our annual Global Cleantech 100 is a significant research exercise, pulling together thousands of datapoints—objective and subjective; quantitative and qualitative—from all over the world, with the end goal of identifying where the consensus of sentiment and opinion seems to lie amongst the international cleantech community.

The Global Cleantech Innovation Index 2014 | 27 June 2014
This report investigates the countries where entrepreneurial clean technology companies are most likely to emerge from over the next 10 years – and why. Drawing on a wide range of factors and sources, the study seeks to answer the same question as the 2012 Global Cleantech Innovation Index, namely: which countries currently have the greatest potential to produce entrepreneurial cleantech start-up companies which will commercialise clean technology innovations over the next 10 years?

2013 Global Cleantech 100 Report | 6 June 2014
Our annual Global Cleantech 100 is a significant research exercise, pulling together thousands of datapoints—objective and subjective; quantitative and qualitative—from all over the world, with the end goal of identifying where the consensus of sentiment and opinion seems to lie amongst the international cleantech community.

Looking Back, Looking Forward: the Best is Yet to Come | 25 May 2014
A commemorative piece for the 10th annual European Cleantech Forum, this report sets out to provide reflections on the last 10 years of innovation and some thoughts on the next 10 – within the context of clean technologies and sustainable innovations.

Partnering with Corporates -- An Important but Complicated Aspect of Growing Cleantech Companies | 18 February 2014
In partnership with VantagePoint Capital Partners and Silicon Valley Bank, we have explored the role corporate partnerships play in the growth of cleantech companies. Corporates, with their capital, access to markets, technological know-how, and validation, often seem like obvious partners to help cleantech startups overcome two of their biggest barriers to success: adoption and scale. Yet despite all the noise and recognized importance of partnerships—amongst entrepreneurial companies (“startups”), large established corporations (“corporates”), and investors alike—the success rate from these complex relationships has been less than we expected.

2012 Global Cleantech 100 Report | 11 September 2012
For its fourth year running, Cleantech Group (CTG) is proud to present the annual Global Cleantech 100 list, our barometer reading of the global innovation community’s shifting views on which companies, and which types of companies, are most likely to have big commercial impact in a 5-10 year timeframe.

The Global Cleantech Innovation Index 2012 Report | 1 March 2012
Cleantech Group and The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) reveal a first-of-its-kind report on the most innovative cleantech countries of 2012. The report covers: - Which countries are producing cleantech innovation today? - Which countries should we watch in the future? - Unique insight into the sources of cleantech innovation around the world. - What can countries do to promote cleantech innovation in their economies?

2011 Global Cleantech 100 Report | 17 October 2011
Collated by combining proprietary Cleantech Group research data, with over 6,000 nominations and specific input from an expert panel, the Global Cleantech 100 companies represent the most innovative and promising ideas in cleantech – the companies that are best positioned to solve tomorrow’s clean technology challenges.

Global Cleantech 100 - A Barometer of the Changing Face of Global Cleantech Innovation | 17 October 2010
The Global Cleantech 100 is an annual list published by the Cleantech Group on the most promising 100 private companies developing the cleantech solutions of tomorrow. The report is carefully constructed synthesizing existing cleantech lists, historical investment data, as well as the opinions of a prestigious and diverse judging panel. This report covers the following: The 100 top innovators in cleantech today, trends in the 2010 list, analysis by region and sector, funding and investor data, and the Lust and Marmite lists: the companies with the most admiration and the ones that divided the panel.