ESG Data for a Green and Sustainable Future
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The Future of Sustainable Data Alliance (FoSDA) was launched in January 2020. Spearheaded by Refinitiv and the World Economic Foundation, […]
Category: Opinion
How can data sharing help deliver net-zero?
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FinextraTV interview — Richard Peers talks with our founder about the business case for data sharing, and how this can […]
TCFD and its Discontents
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What needs to happen in order for mandatory TCFD reporting to truly contribute towards the transition to a net-zero economy? […]
The New Data Sharing Economy
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The economy took a huge knock in 2020, on a scale none of us could imagine. As society adjusted to […]
Why getting data infrastructure right is so important to any green Covid-19 recovery plan
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As well as vital physical infrastructure, we need the right data infrastructure to navigate the climate crisis – and particularly […]
Covid-19 recovery: what would be the environmental impact of working from home if it became the norm?
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In a YouGov poll taken in between the 2nd and 6th of September 2020, people were asked about working conditions […]
What are the three policies to make the economic recovery from Covid-19 sustainable?
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Yesterday (29 October), the Project Cygnus team held a virtual event asking for the three policies needed to make the […]
Towards a Net-Zero Covid-19 Economic Recovery
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Businesses must be incentivised to deliver net-zero outcomes through their funding and support as part of the Green recovery. Stimulating […]
Across the political spectrum, there is a lot of consensus on how to tackle climate change
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The climate change debate has often been painted as something that concerns the left of British politics much more than […]
The Covid-19 crisis has reduced emissions. But they are still too high
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A narrative that has emerged since the start of the Covid-19 crisis is that lockdown has been a good thing […]
How small businesses and young people have been hit by the Covid crisis
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The full scale of the economic impact of the Covid crisis upon the United Kingdom is still difficult to fully […]
How the UK made carbon emissions decrease massively over the last thirty years – and why that isn’t as good news as it sounds
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Since 1990, the United Kingdom has reduced carbon emissions within its borders by 39% and all greenhouse gas emissions by […]
Why the government’s £350 million green Covid-19 recovery plan is deeply inadequate
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In the second quarter of 2020, the UK economy shrunk by over 20% due to measures required to contain the […]
Icebreaker One response to Australian Energy Rules Framework Consultation
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Target audience(s): Policy experts, energy sector experts — Estimated reading time: 12-15 minutes Reference: Australian policy consultation — Energy Rules […]
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 […]
SERI update – w/c 24th August
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At Icebreaker One we push ourselves to be more transparent in how we work. We will be experimenting in how […]
Project Cygnus Launch Event – Webinar recording
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On the 13th August we held an online event to launch Project Cygnus – a €1M EIT Climate-KIC funded programme […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]