Year: 2019

Sustainable Innovation Forum: facilitating greater engagement between the private and public sector to accelerate clean energy innovation

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  Mission Innovation (MI) is pleased to support the Sustainable Innovation Forum as the largest business-focussed event at COP, facilitating direct engagement between private and public sector leaders to accelerate action on issues including clean energy, energy access and climate change. Mission Innovation will work with the organisers, Climate Action, to drive positive, proactive engagement […]

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MI Secretariat Gathering – New York City, 19-20 September 2019

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(Front row): Daniele Poponi, Stephanie Klak, Jennie Dodson; (Middle row): Helen Fairclough, Julie Anderson, Joonhyung Ahn; (Back row): Lindsay Brown, Sharon Kearney, Jia Zhang (joined by phone: Irmgard Herold) The Mission Innovation Secretariat provides a stable, enduring resource to drive forward MI activities and achieve the vision and impact outlined in MI’s Enabling Framework and […]

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Morocco joined Mission Innovation

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Moroccan delegation with Amarjeet Sohi, Canadian Minister of Natural Resources (second from left) at MI-4: Rachid El Mrabet, IRESEN; Aziz Rabbah, Minister for Energy, Mines and Sustainable Development; Badr Ikken, IRESEN   Morocco officially joined Mission Innovation (MI) at the Fourth Mission Innovation Ministerial meeting (MI-4) in Vancouver, Canada, on May 28, 2019 and was […]

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NEWS RELEASE: Mission Innovation participates in UN Climate Action Summit

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  NEWS RELEASE New York, 24 September 2019 – At the UN Climate Action Summit in New York, Mission Innovation (MI) members reiterated their ongoing commitment and the importance of accelerating clean energy innovation to meet long-term climate goals and provide affordable, reliable and secure energy supplies. Several new initiatives and coalitions that will spur […]

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Meet Climate Action’s New Superalliance

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As announced at MI-4 in Vancouver (May 2019), Mission Innovation is collaborating with the Global Covenant of Mayors to enable cities and nations from around the world to work together to fast-track clean energy technology. Read about how mayors and ministers are taking climate action here: https://nyti.ms/30HulYd […]

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New MISC chair Prof. John Loughhead on MI’s achievements and priorities

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In June 2019, Prof. John Loughhead succeeded Frank Des Rosiers as Chair of the Mission Innovation Steering Committee (MISC). Prof. Loughhead is a well-known energy expert and currently Chief Scientific Adviser at the UK’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). He was involved in the discussions which led to the creation of MI […]

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Global Cooling Prize: Finalists to be announced in November

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The Global Cooling Prize — initiated by Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI); Mission Innovation; and the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, and supported by a broad-based coalition of partners — is an innovation competition aimed at identifying breakthrough, climate-friendly, and affordable residential cooling solutions that can provide cooling to all, without warming the […]

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Innovations with potential to avoid 3 gigatonnes CO2e per year by 2030

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The 1.5o Compatible Solution Framework will enable public and private investors to identify the technologies that have the greatest potential to tackle climate change. 100 global innovations with the combined potential to avoid almost 3 gigatonnes CO2e per year by 2030 were showcased at MI-4. Launched at the 3rd Mission Innovation Ministerial (MI-3), MI’s 1.5o […]

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