E3G Strategic Programmes
Project activities and evolving thinking
E3G currently undertakes activities in four major areas of focus. These strategic programmes interlock and cross-fertilise. This section of the E3G website provides an introduction to each of them, with regular website articles on the thinking and activities we undertake. We also provide updates of programme news alongside E3G comment on related topics of interest.
Climate & Energy
A stable climate is a system condition for the continuance of civilization, requiring an urgent acceleration of progress towards a low carbon global economy. The core of E3G’s approach is to reframe the climate change debate around how to deliver the scale and pace of investment needed to preserve climate security, and to animate new coalitions and propositions to help achieve this outcome.
Recently published
- Carbon Capture and Storage: Letter to EU Energy and Environment Ministers
- The Humanitarian Challenge of Climate Change
- EU CCS Policy: financing options
- Taming King Coal - the EU’s energy policy
- EU “must accelerate CCS demo plant development”
- Clinton, McCain, Obama – Europe’s opportunity to shape a Presidency
- Invitation: Climate Change and Security - The geopolitics of tomorrow
- New frameworks for delivering global Climate and Energy Security
- Delivering Climate Security: Nick Mabey interview
- Invitation: EU-India - A new partnership on climate change?
Europe in the World
Effective European action is necessary for the achievement of international sustainable development outcomes. In this programme area, E3G is working with others to identify and open up avenues likely to be productive in building a new sense of purpose for Europe as a pathfinder for the global transition to sustainable development.
Recently published
- Invitation: An EU Budget for fighting Climate Change?
- Invitation: Quel budget de l’Union européenne pour lutter contre le changement climatique?
- Un budget européen pour l’avenir
- Ein Budget für die Zukunft
- A European Budget for the Future
- Europa în lume: Romanian pamphlet now published
- Central and Eastern Europe’s climate change opportunity
- Europa w świecie: pamphlet launch event in Warsaw
- Europa w świecie: Polish pamphlet now published
- Can Europe be a leader for sustainable development?
New Foreign Policy
In an interconnected and interdependent world, there is no ‘abroad’. The old divisions between domestic and foreign policy no longer hold true. E3G founders and staff are experienced in helping foreign ministries and other government departments engage with other actors in the pursuit of convergent policy objectives.
Recently published
- Sustainability and Foreign Policy
- International Development and Global Public Goods: An analytical framework
- Security trends and threat misperceptions
- Report on UK Foreign Office: Could do better
- Preventive Diplomacy: new taskforce launched
- Sustainability and Foreign Policy: the role of the FCO
- World Economic Forum: world is more vulnerable to global risks
- How Power has Shifted
- Environment and Security: An inventory of policies and practices
- Evidence to the Foreign Affairs Committee
Systems for Change
New approaches and tools are required in order to support the complex convergent policy solutions needed to achieve the global transition to sustainable development. This programme area sees E3G working on issues of institutional change; problem solving techniques; strategy and decision-making tools; and collaboration mechanisms.