Timeline
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
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.
Image credits
For the use of their photographs, we thank:
- Rachel Sussman for use of her images from the The Oldest Living Things in the World
- Background image: Antarctic moss — 5,500 years old; Elephant Island, Antarctica
- Spruce Gran Picea — 9,550 years old; Sweden
- Stromatolites — 2,000-3,000 years old; Western Australia
- La Llareta — 3,000 years old; Atacama Desert, Chile
- Lydiat/Wainwright Studios for use of Chris Wainwright’s Red Ice 2008. Disko Bay. Greenland