Icebreaker One at Davos
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The World Economic Forum have requested Icebreaker One participate in leading a session at Davos. This is an invitation-only event for CEO, C-Suite and Ministerial-level Davos participants. If you are […]
Category: Updates
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 […]
IB1 update 2019-06-26 revised summary
Posted onBelow is an updated description of Icebreaker One based on the feedback we’ve had over the past four weeks. It includes more specifics about what Icebreaker One will do to […]
Open discussion paper 2019-05-13
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We launched our first provocation & discussion paper at the 2019 UN Disaster Risk Reduction Global Platform Example social media message, if you wish to share: The time for theory […]
IB1 update 2019-04-29
Posted onThere are 14 calendar days to go until we touch down in Geneva. Our provocation paper has had over 20 contributors, is now in draft form and is almost ready […]
IB1 update 2019-04-22
Posted on“We need to change course now” Momentum is building across multiple fronts. Last week banks came with out a statement that they face $20tn ($20,000,000,000,000) of climate risk. “We call on […]
IB1 update 2019-04-15
Posted onWorkshop outcomes On Wednesday 10th April participants from insurance, risk modelling, disaster risk reduction, policy, investment and infrastructure held a workshop to unpack user stories and validate economic cases for […]
IB1 update 2019-04-08
Posted onSupporters Last week we added supporters UN Environment and Arup. Please help us connect with organisations who’d like to join the discussion privately or publicly “Support the Icebreaker One discussion”. […]
IB1 update 2019-04-01
Posted onWe like deadlines: there are 42 days to go until the UNISDR Global Platform in Geneva, where we formally initiate the Icebreaker One discussion. Last week we: launched this icebreakerone.org website planned out a workshop […]
IB1 update 2019-03-25
Posted onWithin a week of launching we now have 56 people on this list. Thank you. Over the last week the working groups (below) have continued to define the scope and […]