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Jul 07 2010

E3G News: New roles for Martin Rands and Shane Tomlinson

By Admin

To mark E3G’s continued growth and development, E3G is pleased to announce new roles for Martin Rands and Shane Tomlinson.

Martin Rands joined E3G at its inception as a Finance Director and a Board member. Martin has been appointed as E3G’s first Chief Operating Officer (COO), expanding his role to explicitly take responsibility for the delivery and management of E3G’s internal

Dec 18 2009

Leaked UN Assessment “Focuses on tonnes rather than transformation”

By Matthew Findlay

A leaked internal UN assessment of pledges and voluntary commitments made so far by developed and developing countries is distracting from the critical issues being debated in Copenhagen, said Nick Mabey, Chief Executive of E3G.

The report claims that countries must close a gap of between 1.9 Gt and 4.2 Gt in their 2020 emissions in order to achieve a CO2 concentration level consistent with

Aug 03 2009

Jennifer Morgan, E3G Director for Global Climate Change, moves to the World Resources Institute

By Nick Mabey

E3G’s Director for Global Climate Change – Jennifer Morgan – has been appointed as the World Resources Institute’s next Director of its Climate and Energy Programme; succeeding Jonathan Pershing who joined the Obama Administration as Deputy Special Envoy for Climate Change earlier this year.

E3G’s CEO, Nick Mabey, said,

Although we are sorry to lose someone with Jennifer’s unique

Jun 03 2009

E3G-WRI side event at UNFCCC: MRV Institutions and Issues

By Claire Langley

E3G and World Resources Institute (WRI) hosted a side event at the UNFCCC Climate Change talks in Bonn, Germany on 3 June 2009 from 19:30 to 21:00.

The event, entitled Measurable, Reportable and Verifiable Institutions & Issues: matching support and actions with examples from China, featured presentations by Hilary McMahon, Senior Associate from WRI and Teng Fei from the Institute of Energy,

Jul 02 2008

New E3G Office: Visitor Directions

By Meera Shah

Our transition from our old home in the Science Museum is now almost complete, and right now we’re busily unpacking boxes at our new office in Borough High Street.

Attached here in pdf format for download are our updated directions for visitors.

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E3G Office: Visitor Directions

Visiting E3G

The new E3G office is located at 210 Borough High Street, just 20 metres from

Apr 09 2008

Nick Mabey joins Eco-Towns Challenge Panel

By E3G Editor

E3G Chief Executive Nick Mabey is one of 12 experts who will provide advice on the development of a series of new eco-towns in the UK.

The panel’s role will be to recommend potential improvements to each developer for their eco-town proposals. The panel will not be responsible for assessing proposals or judging their relative merits. The Government will be responsible for assessing the

Oct 30 2007

New arrivals, new adverts, and a goodbye

By Chris Littlecott

Our batch of job adverts back in August resulted in a huge response - we received over 100 applicants for the researcher position alone. We’ve now completed hiring for those positions, and new staff members will be joining us shortly, starting later this week. Biographies will follow just as soon as the new arrivals are through the door.

We’re also now starting recruitment on 2 programme

May 11 2007

Invitation: Tom Burke lecture on Nuclear Power

By Victor Aguilera

The Environmental Law Foundation annual lecture for 2007 will be given by E3G Founding Director Tom Burke on Thursday 17 May at 6.00 pm.

The lecture will be entitled is ‘Nuclear inevitable? Policy and politics for a carbon constrained world’, and will take place at the Law Society, 113 Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1PL.

The evening will be an important opportunity to examine the issues

Jan 08 2007

The perils of a short distance cyclist

By Chris Littlecott

The scene:
Milton Keynes, the most cycle-friendly city in the UK. A quiet road, no traffic.

Characters:
Chas Middlecroft, a young website editor on his first day in a new city;
his new green bicycle;
er, that’s it.

ACT I

(Enter Chas on bicycle)

(Chas pulls the front brake before the back one and flies over handlebars)

Chas: “Ow!”

THE END

Apologies for the slow start to the year on

Dec 20 2006

A year in review: E3G in 2006

By Martin Rands

And so, as another generation of over-fed turkeys while away their time, wondering what all the excitement is about and hoping they don’t miss out on the fun, it’s time to look back on another eventful E3G year.

Spring – arrivals and departures

Kicking off the year in the appropriate manner, three of our first batch of interns, Marina Brutinel, Diana Parusheva and Simon McSweeney,

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