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May 25 2010

Queen’s Speech Bill to Create Green Investment Bank

By Ed Matthew

In the Queen’s speech later today it is expected that an Energy Security and Green Economy Bill will be introduced which will include provisions to set up a Green Investment Bank.

The decision of the coalition Government to press ahead with the creation of this landmark investment institution has received strong support from a broad range of business, finance and charity stakeholders. It has

Mar 24 2010

Media Release: Green Investment Bank Could Spark Low Carbon Industrial Revolution

By Ingrid Holmes and Ed Matthew

The Government has announced in the Budget today a Green Investment Bank as a central part of its strategy to promote green growth and jobs.

Nick Mabey, Chief Executive of E3G, strongly welcomed the proposal and said:

With the creation of the world’s first dedicated Green Investment Bank, the UK is now firmly at the forefront of the global race to decarbonisation.”

The Green Investment

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

Dec 18 2009

Effective Global Climate Deal Will Promote National Security

By Katherine Silverthorne

Security Experts Travel to Copenhagen to Call For Action

On the penultimate day of climate negotiations, security experts from around the world gathered in Copenhagen to make the security case for action on climate change.  The participants from Bangladesh, UK, Brussels, Canada and the U.S. explained that failure to change global emissions trajectories would lead to increased strain on natural

Dec 14 2009

Copenhagen Week 2 - Closing the Deal

By Editor

Ten key questions determining the future of everyone on the planet will be answered by the end of next week.

1. Will we stay below two degrees or are we headed for a four degree world?
2. Will the US re-enter or wreck the global climate regime?
3. Are we headed for a legally binding treaty or more talks about talks?
4. Is there enough real money on the table?
5. Are we working on one or two

Dec 14 2009

Power sector roadmap overlooks climate science

By Editor

Electricity industry claims that emissions cuts can wait until 2025 are not in line with climate science, according to Nick Mabey, Chief Executive of E3G.

A report released today by a coalition of power sector industry bodies criticises the 2020 targets under negotiation at Copenhagen and argues that “there will be limited emissions reductions before 2020, with the major reductions occurring

Dec 09 2009

Government floats possible UK Green Investment Bank

By Editor

The Government seems to have learnt from the experience of the last few years that it will need more than pledges and targets to drive the £700 billion of low carbon investment required to meet our carbon targets over the next two decades”

commented Nick Mabey, Chief Executive of E3G, on the signalling of government interest in establishing a UK Green Investment bank in today’s pre-budget

Oct 28 2009

Shaping the Copenhagen End-Game: EU-US Summit

By Nick Mabey and Matthew Findlay

On Tuesday 3 November, Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, representing the EU Presidency, will visit Washington to chair the EU-US Summit together with US President Barack Obama. The President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso and the EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana will also be part of the EU delegation.

What’s

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

Apr 23 2009

UK Government takes global lead in delivering carbon capture and storage

By Nick Mabey

Ed Miliband, UK Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, announced today that the UK intends to require any new coal power stations to be fitted with carbon capture and storage (CCS) equipment to reduce the CO2 pollution which is the primary cause of climate change.

The announcement was made in response to recommendations from the independent UK Committee on Climate Change which argued

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