Global business leaders and investors of the Cleantech Venture Network, representing over €5 trillion in assets, to convene in Europe to mitigate climate change

Europe’s Leading Research Laboratories to Showcase Breakthrough Technologies

During Cleantech Forum XIII in Frankfurt, Germany, May 14-16

LONDON - May 1, 2007 –The Cleantech Venture Network®, a Cleantech Group™ company, announced today that at Cleantech Forum XIII a number of Europe's leading research laboratories, including: the Fraunhofer Institute, Imperial College London, General Electric, Chalmers University of Technology and EUREC (European Renewable Energy Centres), will showcase new and emerging technologies with the potential to transform the creation, delivery and use of clean technologies around the globe. The Cleantech Venture Network®, composed of business leaders and investors representing top-tier Finance, Science and Policy institutions globally, will convene at Cleantech Forum XIII May 14-16, 2007 in Frankfurt, Germany to address solutions to climate change, water scarcity and toxin markets.

"The gathering of the Cleantech Venture Network with Europe’s leading research laboratories is a unique opportunity for investors and business leaders to get an advance look at promising technology solutions in areas such as water purification, photovoltaics, lighting and building control and energy efficiency," said Cleantech Group co-founder and chairman Nicholas Parker. "This ‘Cleantech EU Lab Showcase’ will unveil and explain many of the cutting edge technologies and trends that are going to dramatically impact cleantech today and tomorrow."

Looking to increase capital investments across the full cleantech category, Cleantech Forum XIII will include senior executives from: Allianz; Credit Suisse; 3i; General Electric; BASF; Honeywell; Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers; Barclays; Siemens; Shell; IBM; Ernst & Young; World Bank; Dow and Danfoss, among more than 300 other investment leaders from Europe, North America and Asia.

Interested parties can apply to participate by visiting www.cleantech.com.

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For more information or to register, please visit: www.cleantech.com