As well as vital physical infrastructure, we need the right data infrastructure to navigate the climate crisis – and particularly to tie it together with Covid-19 economic recovery. Having better […]
On Thursday, 26 November, Project Cygnus put on an event on the topic of what the main political parties in both the UK and Ireland are doing in order to […]
What we know about renewable energy – current trends, challenges In response to the Paris Agreement, the UK has pledged to bring greenhouse gas emissions to net-zero by 2050, becoming […]
On Monday 16 November, Project Cygnus kicked off London Climate Action Week with a focus on a net-zero economic recovery from Covid-19. The discussion included partners,Arup, the Global Open Finance […]
It’s been announced that two Project Cygnus team members have been appointed as Members of the European Commission’s prestigious Platform on Sustainable Finance. The two are Professor Andreas Hoepner, and […]
In a YouGov poll taken in between the 2nd and 6th of September 2020, people were asked about working conditions pre-Covid-19 and then post-lockdown. 13% of people said they had […]
As the world economy begins to get back on its feet following the seismic shift caused by Covid-19, a much larger climate threat looms, highlighting the need for a sustainable […]
On 9 November, our founder and CEO, Gavin Starks, shared his thoughts on the power of open data with Richard Foster-Fletcher on Boundless Podcast, as part of the Infinite Leaders […]
Project Cygnus is working towards finding the best solutions to enable the economic recovery from Covid-19 to be as sustainable as well as local as possible. In the course of […]
Yesterday (29 October), the Project Cygnus team held a virtual event asking for the three policies needed to make the economic recovery from Covid-19 as green as possible. There were […]
Businesses must be incentivised to deliver net-zero outcomes through their funding and support as part of the Green recovery. Stimulating green economic recovery through infrastructure development Infrastructure development has been […]
The climate change debate has often been painted as something that concerns the left of British politics much more than it bothers the right. This is an unfair assumption. Not […]
Icebreaker One’s SERI project has two goals: To work with our partners in the insurance industry in developing climate-ready insurance products, and To develop the shared data standards and infrastructure […]
Is insurance working? Insurance frequently gets a bad press for not covering what consumers want or for charging prices that force more to self-insure. Indeed, over the last 20 years, […]
n this article we explore the use of remote sensing technology and its role in environmental monitoring and responses to Climate Change. This technology and its example case studies may help us to share and develop ideas across SERI project partners and stakeholders. We hope to be able to use remote sensing to guide our development of climate-ready financial products in a sandbox/test-bed environment over the coming months.
A narrative that has emerged since the start of the Covid crisis is that lockdown has been a good thing for the planet. The story goes that being forced to […]
The full scale of the economic impact of the Covid crisis upon the United Kingdom is still difficult to fully grasp. In the second quarter of 2020, the UK economy […]
Since 1990, the United Kingdom has reduced carbon emissions within its borders by 39% and all greenhouse gas emissions by 44% over the same period. This sounds phenomenal on paper, […]
In the second quarter of 2020, the UK economy shrunk by over 20% due to measures required to contain the spread of Coronavirus. While there has been some recovery since, […]
On Thursday, September 24th, Project Cygnus put on its debut event, one structured around the theme of the entire project: how do we make the economic recovery from the Covid […]