Organization Aims To Accelerate Clean Technology Adoption and Foster Leading Innovations

ATLANTA, GA--November 8, 2010-- Today, over ten clean technology clusters around 
the world banned together to create a conduit for clean technology collaboration across 
the world and spotlight the very best in established clean technology. Called the Global 
Cleantech Cluster Association (GCCA), the organization serves as a gateway for 
cleantech companies to access global capital, new markets, influential networks, 
technology resources, and best practices. With its annual Later Stage and Most 
Impactful awards the organization will vet the very best in established clean technology 
and offer winners international investment exposure and support. 

“The world does not have the luxury to wait for the next, game changing clean 
technologies to gradually rise to the surface” said Shawn LEsser of Sustainable World 
Capital and one of the co-founders of the GCCA. “With Global Cleantech we are 
amplifying the power of clusters around the world and moving the cleantech industry 
closer to established success and increased market adoption.”

Global Cleantech takes a two pronged approach to fostering the success of clean 
technology around the world, through facilitating collaboration between cleantech 
clusters and its annual awards. The Later Stage Awards vet the very best, as well as 
the most impactful companies in the industry, to expose them to the investment 
exposure and business support they need to succeed. Judges are prominent investors 
from around the world, including: US Venture Partners (United States), BASF Venture 
Capital GmbH (United States), UK TIʼs Global Entrepreneur Programme, SOFIANOVA 
Partners (France), and Mountain Cleantech AG (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) to 
name a few. To win, companies must have a proven technology, revenue and 
customers, as well as be nominated by a GCCA member cluster, thus bolstering the 
clusters, as well as emerging companies within the clusters.  

About the Global Cleantech Cluster Association
Global Cleantech is a non-profit association, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. that 
creates conduits for companies to harness the tremendous benefits of international cleantech 
cluster collaboration in an efficient, affordable, and structured way. Global Cleantech provides a 
gateway for established and emerging cleantech companies to access global capital, new 
markets, influential networks, innovative technologies and best practices. GCCA was founded 
by swisscleantech, the Finnish Cleantech Cluster, and Sustainable World Capital. For more 
information about Global Cleantech, please visit www.globalcleantech.org.

MEDIA CONTACT
Lisa Ann Pinkerton
Technica Communications
650-288-1824
Lisaann@technicacommunications.com

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