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.
- Copenhagen Week 2 - Closing the Deal
14 December 2009, Editor - Technology Action Plans and Funding Complement Legally Binding Climate Agreement
14 December 2009, Shane Tomlinson - The Real Message of the Leaked Danish Text
09 December 2009, Nick Mabey - Tom Burke on Voice of America: Environment Ministers Meet in Effort to Invigorate Climate Talks
16 November 2009, Editor - UNFCCC Technology Institutional Structure: Identifying Convergence in Country Submissions
04 November 2009, Shane Tomlinson and Pelin Zorlu - Feasibility Study on EU-CHINA Low Carbon Technology and Investment Demonstration Zones
24 September 2009, Nannan Lundin and Shin Wei Ng - Living on Earth Radio: Mired in the Mud on the Road to Copenhagen
13 July 2009, Jennifer Morgan - Financing the UK’s Low Carbon Transformation
01 July 2009, Nick Mabey - The Future of Climate Policy
22 June 2009, Tom Burke - Blame games on climate change
12 June 2009, Nick Mabey and Malini Mehra
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.
- Market distorting impacts of free EUA allocation to energy intensive industries
10 November 2008, Nick Mabey and Jesse Scott - Europe: delivering the Global Deal
22 July 2008, Nick Mabey - Invitation: An EU Budget for fighting Climate Change?
06 June 2008, Jesse Scott - Invitation: Quel budget de l’Union européenne pour lutter contre le changement climatique?
06 June 2008, Jesse Scott - Un budget européen pour l’avenir
06 June 2008, Jesse Scott - Ein Budget für die Zukunft
08 May 2008, Rebecca Bertram - A European Budget for the Future
16 April 2008, Jesse Scott - Europa în lume: Romanian pamphlet now published
13 February 2008, Chris Littlecott - Central and Eastern Europe’s climate change opportunity
17 December 2007, Tom Burke, Chris Littlecott and Nick Mabey - Europa w świecie: pamphlet launch event in Warsaw
15 November 2007, Chris Littlecott
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.
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.