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Sweden has long been known as a pioneering country when it comes to environmental technology and sustainable innovations. Now more and more Swedish investors want to ride the green wave. They will soon be able to, when the Cleantech Forum conference is held at the Munich brewery in Stockholm on May 21-23.

The innovation competition Sustainable Mobility Challenge is now launched to find sustainable everyday travel services that are so attractive that the need for privately-owned cars is reduced. The competition is organised by the Swedish Energy Agency and is one of a number of initiatives aimed at reducing carbon emissions and helping to bring about a fossil-free transport sector at the latest by 2045.

Since 2011, the Lighting Research Center (LRC) from Troy, New York, has visited the Swedish Energy Agency for a week of lighting seminars on an advanced level. The week has become very popular among the participants, and this year the week will be held between 3-7 December in Stockholm.

Today, there are three Cleantech hubs, in San Francisco, London and Shanghai. Now another hub is being launched in New York, in collaboration with the Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce in New York. The new hub will be a part of Gateway - an innovation platform and physical meeting place in New York for Swedish and American growth companies and international corporations.

CorPower Ocean AB has delivered a final report on the ocean testing of its wave energy converter in half-scale. The ocean tests show promising results when it comes to meeting two big challenges for the ocean energy sector – significant power production and storm survivability