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.
- What the UK elections mean for climate security
20 May 2010, Editor - What does the Security Community need from a Global Climate Regime?
18 January 2010, Nick Mabey - 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 - The European Low Carbon Transformation: If not now when?
25 November 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
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.
- Choices at stake for power market reform
16 August 2010, Simon Skillings - An E3G response to The European Commission’s Energy Strategy 2011-2020 Consultation
02 July 2010, Jesse Scott - Pathways mapped out to zero carbon power sector
14 April 2010, Jonathan Gaventa - The Value Proposition for a European Supergrid
06 April 2010, Jonathan Gaventa - UK Power Sector Market Reform: The Case for Action
16 February 2010, Simon Skillings - A Road Map to Deliver Smart Grid in the UK
26 January 2010, Simon Skillings - Delivering a Zero Emissions Power Sector: Policy Challenges
25 November 2009, Simon Skillings - Investment momentum for decarbonising the EU power sector
18 November 2009, Jonathan Gaventa
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.
- Conservative Party announces Green Investment Bank plans
03 February 2010, Nick Mabey - Financing the UK’s Low Carbon Transformation
01 July 2009, Nick Mabey - Practical Systems Thinking: the challenge of tackling complex problems in day to day government
22 June 2009, Nick Mabey - The Challenge for Government: Part II
04 July 2007, Tom Burke - Climate Change: The Challenge for Government
26 June 2007, Nick Mabey - Practical Sustainable Development
10 July 2006, Chris Littlecott - Technology policy at MIT
08 June 2006, Chris Littlecott - The Challenge of Long Term Strategy
14 March 2006, Nick Mabey