London Climate Action Week — Webinar (recording)
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“I just wanted to say that this was the best presentation I’ve seen on climate data and its uses, and I’ve been attending 3+ events a week since April. Really […]
Author: Gavin
Introducing Open Energy — MEDA phase 1
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A public-access show & tell covering the results of the Modernising Energy Data Access Discovery Phase will take place on Wednesday 15 July 12.55pm-14.30pm at https://ukri.zoom.us/j/96509458686Presentations will be from Siemens […]
Introducing five Icebreaker Clusters
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Developing standards-based marketplaces for federated data-sharing Addressing the climate crisis requires us to combine data-driven innovation across domains of science, policy, finance and engineering: to optimise physical infrastructures we need […]
SERI Product Innovation begins
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(left-to-right, from top): Kathryn Corrick; Jeremy Hindle; Ben Cotton; Kristian Steele; Katharine Stephens; Duncan Duffy, Gavin Starks [inset]; Srini Sundaram, Gea Mikic; Emma Thwaites; Cybele Wong; Stephanie Lopes; Andrea Gaglione; […]
UNEP & Digital Public Goods
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Reference PDF download – UNEP Contribution to the Round Table 1B on Digital Public Goods Executive Summary This paper builds a case for a governance framework that will support the […]
A wealth of outcomes or just outcomes of wealth?
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I believe we are at a critical juncture on two interrelated approaches to data sharing. I am not sure we are having the right conversations in the right places, and […]
Briefing — Climate Financial Risk
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Financial Institutions such as asset managers, banks and insurers rely on the disclosures made by corporations in their decisions to invest, lend or insure; in turn, these financial institutions now […]
Broken data-flows are wasting all our time & inhibiting innovation
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“Open up the data” “If only we had the data we could make better decisions” “We should put all the data in one place so that we can run our […]
Icebreaker One launches with £1m funding to develop urgently needed climate-ready financial products
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New non-profit wins UKRI grant and partners with leading institutions to bridge the data gaps between finance and climate change. Davos, Switzerland: 22nd January 2020 – Global […]
UN lists Icebreaker One as a top-20 agent of change
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Icebreaker One is delighted to announce its inclusion in the ‘20 top multi-stakeholder processes in 2020 for a digital ecosystem’ as part of the United Nations Environment Programme. Alongside the […]
Icebreaker One at Davos
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If you are interested in participating or would like us to connect with your CEO, please contact Gea@IcebreakerOne.org An Innovation Agenda for Climate Resilience, Adaptation and Mitigation Through Data When: […]
Three priorities for data innovation
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1. Design for search to enable data discovery We currently don’t know what exists and can’t easily find things. We need organisations to publish open data descriptions of the data […]
IB1 review 2019
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“Make data-at-scale work harder to deliver innovative financing for a carbon-zero future” 4-min read It has been quite the year, ending on a high with the securing of a new […]
Icebreaker One @ COP25 in Madrid
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If you are attending, please do get in touch / say hello. Sun, 8th Dec: Development & Climate Days (the official UN side event) Icebreaker Gea Mikic will be speaking […]
Defining the data infrastructure for climate-ready investment
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Addressing the climate crisis requires us to combine innovation across finance, policy, our physical and data infrastructures. Physical vs data infrastructure It is easy to see our physical infrastructure—including energy, […]
How might regulation enable financial innovation to deliver a carbon-zero future?
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“While these risks may form in full over time, they are becoming apparent now. Firms are enhancing their approaches to managing these risks, but face barriers to implementing the forward-looking, […]
Opening Icebreaker One at UN HQ
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After an 18-month industry consultation, we opened Icebreaker One at the UN Climate Action Summit in New York. Our focus is on bridging the gaps between finance, policy and climate […]
Building the web of environmental data
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David Jensen at UN Environment Programme has today highlighted that 68% of the 93 environmental SDG indicators cannot yet be measured due to a lack of data. He calls for the creation […]
Who’s who in Climate, Environment, Finance, Infrastructure and Data—the CEFID Directory
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Who’s who in Climate, Environment, Finance, Infrastructure and Data Over the past 18 months we’ve spoken to many hundreds of people representing hundreds of organisations. One observation is that there […]
House of Lords roundtable summary 2019-07-10
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Icebreaker One private roundtable at the House of LordsWednesday, 10th July 9:30-12:00 Convened and co-chaired by: Baroness Worthington and Gavin StarksAttendees: Andy Howard, Katherine Coates, Volker Buscher, Hugh Phillips, Jonathan […]