185 days of icebreaking — a brief summary
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Well, what a year. Starting just after the first UK lockdown kicked in, we are closing out 2020 having secured over £4.3M in our first year of trading. Working […]
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 difficult circumstances, one of the major changes was the way […]
Renewable energy and Insurance: Unlocking the path to net zero – Part II
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Renewable insurance, key issues and use cases Insurance Market Trends and Key Issues Many insurance companies have been contributing to the growth of the renewable energy sector, supporting it with […]
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 to tie it together with Covid-19 economic recovery. Having better […]
What are UK and Irish politicians doing on net-zero Covid-19 economic recovery?
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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 […]
Renewable energy and Insurance: Unlocking the path to net zero – Part I
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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 […]
London Climate Action Week: Key takeaways of the Project Cygnus event
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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 […]
Two members of the Project Cygnus team appointed Members of the European Commission’s Platform on Sustainable Finance
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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 […]
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 pre-Covid-19 and then post-lockdown. 13% of people said they had […]
Energy Performance Certificates and the road to a green economic recovery
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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 […]
Gavin Starks discusses Open Data on Boundless Podcast
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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 lays out the four criteria for choosing green Covid recovery policies
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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 […]
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 economic recovery from Covid-19 as green as possible. There were […]
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 green economic recovery through infrastructure development Infrastructure development has been […]
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 it bothers the right. This is an unfair assumption. Not […]
Incentivising Climate-Ready Behaviours in the Insurance Industry
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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 […]
How can insurance incentivise a change in behaviour that aligns with decarbonisation and increased investments in climate solutions?
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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, […]
View from above – how satellite imagery may help us define climate-ready products for the insurance industry
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In 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.
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 for the planet. The story goes that being forced to […]
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 grasp. In the second quarter of 2020, the UK economy […]