Icebreaker One turns three
Icebreaking in 2021
2021-July: Completion of launch programme for Climate-Ready Financial Products
2021-April: A year of Icebreaking
2020: Review of 185 days’ effort
2020-November: London Climate Action Week — videos
2020-September: 100 days into the journey
2020-June: Project update
2020-April: SERI project initiation
2020-January: Davos, Switzerland
Major announcements
- Icebreaker One launches £1m funding to develop urgently needed climate-ready financial products
- UN lists Icebreaker One as a top-20 agent of change
- Session — An Innovation Agenda for Climate Resilience, Adaptation and Mitigation Through Data
2019-September: Climate Action Summit, New York
We announced Icebreaker One and its founding partners at the UN Climate Action Summit in September 2019
2019-July: Industry round table at the House of Lords, London
We co-hosted a cross-industry roundtable at the House of Lords in London: meeting minutes here.
2019-May: Presentation and discussion at UN-DRR, Geneva
We launched a provocation & discussion paper at the UNISDR (UNDRR) Global Platform in Geneva
Pre-launch timeline & background
Background
An 18-month consultation (2018-2019) with over 250 public & private sector financial organisations and individuals—to understand their needs—revealed:
- A need to convene public & private sector actors to help share insights, opportunities and threats
- A need to better map investment to impact both in pre-funding analysis and post-execution reporting
- A need to demonstrate material, long-term impact that reduces risk and increases returns
- A need to stimulate innovation that brings together public & private sector expertise to maximise public good and private returns
- A need to reduce friction in data sharing, addressing IP and related legal and security issues
The initiative also draws on learnings from both the Open Banking Standard and the Open Data Institute.