Sep 06 2006
Welcome to E3G’s new website.
E3G may not be a thinktank, but we do invest heavily in shared thinking. We want our website to be a hub for information exchange, discussion and collaboration for the wider community of third generation environmentalists.
We’ve begun the process of posting articles and event reports from the back catalogue we’ve built up over the
Jun 28 2006
The announcement earlier this month that E3G Chief Executive John Ashton is to join the UK Foreign and Commonwealth office as Special Representative for Climate Change has been picked up around the world.
The story was first reported by BBC news online, and made the webpages of The Mirror as ‘DIPLOMAT ON GLOBAL WARMING’.
The Reuters report has been published by both Gulfnews.com and The
Jun 08 2006
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
Feb 01 2006
During his recent annual state of the union address, President George W Bush announced the launch of an ‘Advanced Energy Initiative’ aimed at developing new technologies which could help the USA move beyond its current petroleum-based economy.
As part of this approach, President Bush restated his interest in new electricity generation technologies and called for increased investment.
The
Nov 09 2005
What role do diplomats and diplomacy play in the 21st century?
That’s the topic that the BBC Radio 3 discussion programme Night Waves: Undercurrents looked at on 9 November 2005.
E3G Chief Executive John Ashton was one of the panelists.
We’ll keep digging to see if a transcript of the show is available. In the meantime, programme details follow below.
This week the
Sep 04 2005
News of the EU-China agreement to cooperate on a clean coal demonstration plant was featured in the Financial Times under the headline ‘EU to help China curb coal-fired emissions’. The article features not one but two E3G founding directors.
Firstly, in a discussion of the importance of coal in the Chinese energy mix: “Tom Burke, visiting professor at Imperial College in London, said tackling
Jul 12 2005
The summer 2005 edition of ‘On Earth’ magazine - the journal of the Natural Resources Defense Council - featured an interview with E3G Founding Director John Ashton. A pdf of the interview is attached, the text of the interview follows below.
With his sharp
Jul 09 2005
The 2005 G8 summit at Gleneagles was overshadowed in many ways by the bombings in London.
Prior to the summit, much attention was focussed on whether Tony Blair would achieve his aim of securing a strong statement on Climate Change.
Two days later, E3G Chief Executive John Ashton appeared on the Radio 4 Today programme to discuss whether this did in fact occur, and what needs to happen
Dec 22 2004
To mark the unofficial launch of E3G as an organisation, Chief Executive John Ashton appeared on the Radio 4 Today programme to discuss our role in promoting environmental change.
You can listen to the archive recording of John’s interview on the Today programme website – scroll down the page to 8.42 am and click the link.
The transcript of the interview follows here below.
John
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