In all, the Latin American and Caribbean region captured 6% of the total $268.7bn invested worldwide in clean energy in 2012, up from 5.7% in 2011 (Clean energy is defined as wind, solar, biomass, small hydro, geothermal and other renewable power generation, biofuels and non-asset finance investment in energy smart technologies; BNEF revised its methodology to include asset finance for energy smar