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May 27 2008

Press Release: Carbon capture and storage critical for EU’s climate change objectives

By Nick Mabey

E3G has joined together with Alstom, Bellona Foundation, Climate Change Capital, and Royal Dutch Shell, to form a CCS Leadership Coalition.

The Coalition members aim to collaborate on the accelerated development of CCS by supporting and building on current proposals for European climate & energy legislation. Full details follow below.

Accelerated deployment of carbon capture and storage

Apr 23 2008

News Release: RUSI report - Security response to climate change ‘slow and inadequate’

By Nick Mabey

Today sees the publication of ‘Delivering Climate Security: International Security Responses to a Climate Changed World’, written by E3G Chief Executive Nick Mabey and published by the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) as the latest in its series of ‘Whitehall Papers’.

The official publication press release follows below.

RUSI report: Security response to climate change ‘slow and

Jan 22 2008

Media Brief: New EU Climate Change Package Fails to Tame King Coal

By Nick Mabey

This week the European Commission publishes a package of proposed measures to drive forward Europe’s response to the climate change threat, implementing the March 2007 European Council committments to 20% emission reductions, 20% improvement in energy efficiency, and 20% more renewable energy by the year 2020 compared to 1990 levels.

Central to this must be the effective encouragement of

Mar 06 2007

Unprecedented NGO Coalition calls for EU Heads of State to deliver on Climate and Energy Security

By Nick Mabey and Jennifer Morgan

Unprecedented NGO Coalition calls for EU Heads of State to deliver on Climate and Energy Security and demonstrate Europe’s relevance to its citizens.

Letter to European Council and Press Release attached for download.

Press Release

In the lead-up to this week’s European Council discussions on energy and climate security, a broad coalition of environment, development, human rights and

Sep 07 2006

Jennifer Morgan joins E3G

By Chris Littlecott

Jennifer Morgan, Director of WWF’s Global Climate Change Program, will join E3G (Third Generation Environmentalism) on October 1st as Climate Change Programme Director. In her new post, she will focus her work on efforts to deliver a step-change in the international response to climate change – with a clear link to energy security and foreign policy.

Ms Morgan joins E3G in this new

Jun 08 2006

John Ashton appointed UK Special Representative for Climate Change

By Chris Littlecott

John Ashton, Chief Executive of E3G (Third Generation Environmentalism), has been appointed as the UK Foreign Secretary’s Special Representative for Climate Change, the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office announced today.

John Ashton will support Mrs Beckett and UK Ministers in helping to build a stronger political foundation for international action on climate change. He will work closely