The first ever London Climate Action Week will take place between 1-8 July 2019. London Climate Week will bring together London’s climate expertise and talent from across sectors to focus on scaling up practical solutions and identifying new solutions to help cut carbon emissions to keep global temperature...
In November 2018 the European Commission proposed to set Europe on course for carbon neutrality by 2050 with its strategic vision for a long-term EU climate strategy. If supported by EU member states, under this new vision, the EU would become the first region in the world to reach net zero greenhouse...
E3G Chair Tom Burke spoke at the Gas to Power Forum on Canary Wharf, London on April 30th, 2019. His remarks are below. The future will be different. We live in an age of disruptions. Not all of them welcome. The disruption accompanying climate change is the most unwelcome of...
Thank you for inviting me to contribute to this panel. As has already become clear, and will become even more so, climate change is one of the most serious threats to the prosperity and security of everyone in Britain and everywhere else. It is our combustion of fossil fuels that...
On 22 March, E3G's Chair Tom Burke, spoke at the United Nation's Economic Commission for Europe's meeting on the Sustainable Development Goals in Geneva, Switzerland. Read his full remarks below. Thank you for the invitation to share our experience on financing disaster risk reduction in relation to...
The European Union, State Street Global Advisors and E3G Inc. will host a dialogue on sustainable finance on 8 March 2019 from 8:30 AM - 10:30 AM. The private event will be an informal gathering of European Union officials, along with local leaders from government, the private, and non-profit sectors for a roundtable...
On March 7th, Tom Burke spoke at the Belvedere Forum in Warsaw, Poland. In his remarks he discusses what needs to be done to mobilise the public to support action on climate change and whether last year’s COP24 in Katowice has kept alive the flame of hope...
On 21 February 2019, E3G Co-founding Chairman Tom Burke, spoke at The Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Ukraine. The core argument of this lecture, A Climate of Trust, is that the failure of climate change policy represents an existential threat to civilisation that will destroy the foundations of trust on which...
Tom Burke CBE addresses the Oxford Forum on International Development, Said Business School, Oxford. There are three key points I want to make about climate justice and development. The first is that climate change presents humanity with a unique challenge. We have never before faced a problem like this. There...
UK Energy will host a breakfast briefing in association with CGI on 29 January 2019 from 8:30-10:30 AM. A panel of experts, including E3G Associate Director Ed Matthew, will discuss energy efficiency. As highlighted in the recent IPCC report, energy efficiency has a key role to play in helping the UK...