Data Spectrum for Energy
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With a view to better explaining the potential for open and shared data to address climate change, the Open Data Institute (ODI) and Icebreaker One have developed a Data Spectrum […]
Author: Gavin
Open energy to help UK modernise energy sector data and help deliver net-zero
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Icebreaker One to build on proven data-sharing approaches to address energy data London (United Kingdom), 16 September 2020 — Icebreaker One has embarked on phase 2 of the Innovate UK-funded […]
Product innovation is harder than platform innovation
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Icebreaker One is trying to work out how to rapidly evolve our financial and energy systems to embed net-zero into all investment in a manner that is demonstrable, provable and […]
Open Energy — MEDA Phase 2
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An energy data ecosystem that works for everyone We are happy to report that Icebreaker One has made it through to the second phase of the SBRI “Modernising Energy Data […]
IB1 Update 2020-09-01
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Hello, We are ~100 working days into Icebreaker One (since our formal start on April 1, 2020). We have now closed over £3M in grant funding and corporate membership fees […]
Announcing Project Cygnus
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To find out more sign up to our newsletterJoin us for an open webinar at 11am on 13 August 2020 €1M project launched to inform a net-zero COVID-19 economic recovery […]
Icebreaker One — team update
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Hello, One of the things I like about setting up new organisations is creating the culture. In the creation of the last few organisations this has involved really pushing levels […]
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 […]
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 .Presentations will be from Siemens (13.00pm […]
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 […]