How China overtook the US in renewable energy

China renewable energy: An employee displays a solar panel at a workshop in a factory in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. Photograph: LANG LANG/REUTERS

China has overtaken the US for the first time in a league table of investments in low-carbon energy among the G-20, according to a new report by not for profit group the Pew Charitable Trusts published this week.

The report found that despite an overall 6.6 per cent global decline in clean energy investments last year, China invested almost twice as much as the United States in clean energy during 2009.

But the US still leads in energy capacity. It's interesting for the UK too:

� third in overall clean energy investments
� fourth in five-year clean energy investment growth rate
� fifth in the percentage of total power it receives from clean energy sources � ahead of France, China and the US

Pew have kindly shared the data with us - what can you do with it?