(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 […]
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 […]
New York, 24 September 2019 The launch of Mission Innovation (MI) at COP21 recognised the vital role of innovation – driven by sustained public investment coupled with business leadership – to meet long-term climate goals and provide affordable, reliable and secure energy supplies. Since November 2015, MI has expanded to 25 members from five continents, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
As we recently saw at the 4th Mission Innovation (MI-4) Ministerial in Vancouver, MI has built a great deal of momentum since its launch at COP21 in 2015. When I assumed the role of Steering Committee Chair after MI-3 in Malmö, MI had, under Patrick Child’s (European Commission) leadership, already solidified partnerships with IRENA, WEF, […]
Minister Sohi, Natural Resources Canada Canada is helping to build the low-carbon economy. That is why we are investing in the development of new and innovative technologies that will help us fight climate change, boost the economy and create good jobs for Canadians. Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources, the Honourable Amarjeet Sohi, announced an investment […]
