CNBC European Business magazine has published a ground-breaking second list ranking the world's top low carbon pioneers, focusing on shortly-to-list, recently listed and smaller, private companies that are pioneering the clean-tech market.

The list, published in the May 2007 issue of the magazine, is the follow up to the hugely popular top 50 low-carbon pioneers list published in the January/February issue. This list focuses on ranking emerging businesses that have connected climate change to their bottom line and are profiting from it. It includes industry pioneers creating new low-emission technologies and new-market trading platforms. .

The top place on the list was awarded to Mark Shorrock, CEO of Low Carbon Accelerator, for being the only specialist, low-carbon listed private equity fund - mitigating the risk for investors wishing to invest in the new market without being fully exposed to its uncertainties.

Dr. Richard Lofthouse, CNBC European Business Editor, comments: "This is the second edition of the world's first low-carbon pioneers list by CNBC European Business, and represents our continued commitment to this ground breaking sector of the global economy. It confirms our decision to take and hold a leadership position on the subject of the future, low-carbon economy. As before, the list is accompanied by a comprehensive, 20 page series of dedicated features on subjects ranging from bio-fuels to alternative energy financing. Once more we are thrilled to be able to celebrate the progressive companies that are addressing climate change while adding to their bottom line."

Lofthouse continued: "In creating this list, our objectives are to do real-time research on a burgeoning sector. What is new about the second edition list is its emphasis on truly innovative, grass roots companies rather than large corporates, whose own efforts often merit separate analysis."

• How car makers are failing to reduce CO2 emissions fast enough
• Hungary as an emerging bio-fuels superpower
• London's new role as a clean-tech investment hotspot
• How one Spanish visionary is cleaning up the environment
• Climate credits and voluntary carbon markets explained
• A feature on the present and future of Carbon Capture and Storage technology (CCS)

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CNBC European Business is one of the fruits of that reality. It caters to the same five million monthly viewers who watch CNBC Europe, but in particular addresses business leaders and entrepreneurs who appreciate a pan-European, cross-border perspective rather than a narrowly national one. Content is produced by a London-based editorial team supported by an extensive, pan-European network of expert contributors.

CNBC European Business offers Europe-wide review stories pinpointing the shifting tectonic plates of the business landscape, major CEO interviews that dig deeper than the dailies, and snapshot features of entrepreneurs who are making it. The back section is crammed with alternative investments, mutual fund analysis and breaking property tips, plus an expertly written style section complemented by travel, motoring and book reviews. For 2006, additional substance comes in the form of country reports focusing on the fastest growing European economies from Iceland to Poland, plus sector reports ranging from property to executive aviation, private equity, hedge funds, and technology.

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