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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

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

Apr 20 2010

Climate Diplomacy and Security Programme Leader

By Admin

(Location: Berlin)

E3G works to drive changes in foreign policy, and in security methods, approaches and institutions, to make them capable of managing an increasingly interdependent and resource constrained world.

Managing the tensions of climate change and resource scarcity in an interdependent world will require a fundamental shift in how countries view their vital national interests and

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

Nov 23 2009

Guardian: Shane Tomlinson on Green Technology

By Editor

Shane Tomlinson was interviewed by Alok Jha of The Guardian on green technology and the framework on disseminating it effectively. The article below appeared in The Guardian on Monday 23 November.

Global body needed to direct green technology, G77 says

Developing nations call for UN body to police battle on climate change

A green technology body with powers to direct a worldwide transition

Nov 05 2009

Nick Mabey quoted in The Huffington Post by William S Becker

By Editor

William S. Becker, Executive Director of Presidential Climate Action Project has written a series of articles for The Huffington Post on ‘Road to Copenhagen’. One of these – Part 2: Risky Business quotes Nick Mabey’s ‘Delivering Climate Security: International Security Responses to a Climate Changed World’ extensively.

Partly arising from Mr. Becker’s participation at E3G’s

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

Sep 16 2009

The debate must focus on the human cost

By Tom Burke

Between 150 and 200 million people could be displaced by rising sea levels by 2050

The doctors are right about the scale of the health catastrophe that will result from a failure to deal with climate change. So far, the public debate on climate has focused mainly on the science and the economics. We have been made very aware of what dealing with climate change might do to business, and nothing

Aug 27 2009

NY Times: United Kingdom Faces a Quandary Over New Nuclear or Coal Power

By Tom Burke

The UK has a legally binding commitment to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 34% by 2020, and 80% by 2050 on 1990 figures. Given that emissions from power stations account for about 37% of all UK CO2 emissions, what direction will the energy industry take in a carbon constrained world?

Tom Burke speaks to Jeremy Lovell of ClimateWire about the alternatives to including nuclear power in

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

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