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Events

  • Climate Week NY˚C - EV20 Roundtable

    Date:
    20 September 2010
    Location:
    New York City, US

    EV20 is an initiative to speed up the global deployment of plug-in electric vehicles (EV), and this electric vehicle roundtable will follow on from the announcement of the EV20 Coalition and its founding members at the Opening Ceremony.

  • Climate Week NY˚C - Financing Smart Cities, States & Regions: Policies to Stimulate the Growth of Emerging Technologies

    Date:
    21 September 2010
    Location:
    New York City, US

    On the second day of Climate Week NY°C, The Climate Group will host a high-level discussion on smart policies and financing of low carbon technologies, with government and business leaders sharing success stories and helping others to develop and implement policies that will have the same impact in their own regions.

  • Climate Week NY˚C - Crossing the Commercialization Valley of Death: Financing Clean Energy Technologies

    Date:
    21 September 2010
    Location:
    New York City, US

    This high-level panel discussion will highlight the experience of clean energy companies that have successfully traversed the “valley of death,” and seek to identify a series of policy and financing solutions needed to unlock a greater level of private sector investment into clean energy technologies.

  • LightSavers LED Safari

    Date:
    25 September 2010 - 30 September 2010
    Location:
    California, U.S.

    The Climate Group is organizing the LED Safari, a study tour of LED pilots, to be held in collaboration with the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America’s (IESNA) annual Street and Area Lighting Conference in California.

  • Partnership for Urban Innovation: Global Conference 2010

    Date:
    17 June 2010 - 18 June 2010
    Location:
    Shanghai, China

    In conjunction with Shanghai World Expo 2010, Cisco Smart+Connected Communities, Connected Urban Development, Metropolis and The Climate Group are partnering on the Partnership for Urban Innovation Global Conference.

  • Hong Kong Carbon Reduction Campaign (HKCRC) Closing Fun Fair

    Date:
    15 May 2010 - 15 May 2010
    Location:
    Chater Garden, Hong Kong

    The Hong Kong Carbon Reduction Campaign (HKCRC) comes to an end in May, with a fun fair aiming to further enhance the awareness of low carbon living among the citizens of Hong Kong.

  • Lord Browne Dinner: Financing low carbon technologies in Europe

    Date:
    15 March 2010 - 15 March 2010
    Location:
    Brussels

    Dinner Round table with Lord Browne and Director General of DG Climate Action Jos Delbeke

  • SMART 2020 India

    Date:
    06 October 2008
    Location:
    To Be Confirmed

    SMART 2020 India was the first in a series of four global outreach events following the launch of the SMART 2020 report in June 2008 (produced by The Climate Group and The Global e-Sustainability Initiative (GeSI).

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Blogs

  • Empowering Energy Consumers – the untapped resource in our low carbon future 28 July 2010

    Yesterday, Google and The Climate Group co-hosted a roundtable in London on empowering energy consumers.

  • The rise of the intelligent city 23 July 2010

    Our webinar on smart cities looked at key trends and challenges for cities

  • I want my ICT (… services, not technologies) 23 February 2010

    At the European Commission ICT4EE (ICT for Energy Efficiency) event, we aren’t really speaking anymore about technologies, we are speaking about services...

  • Smart Homes - so 10 years ago? 27 January 2010

    Are we in danger of overhyping the smart home?

  • The future started 40 years ago 03 November 2009

    Last week seemed like most other weeks, but it was the 40th anniversary of something that changed all of our lives. October 29th marked the day when 40 years ago, the first ARPANET message was sent, and voila!, the birth of the internet.

  • Grid 2.0: When your refrigerator will talk to your car... 25 February 2009

    ... will they have anything to say? It is unlikely that we'll ever think of our appliances as talkative, but basic sensors and communications on the energy system is likely to allow balancing of load from a host of distributed generation and storage units, such as solar panels and plug in electric vehicles.

  • Small actions matter - but so does company innovation 06 August 2008

    In today's NY Times article, An Energy Diet for Power-Hungry Household PCs, Gartner IT analysts are quoted as saying that "40 percent of all carbon dioxide emissions resulting from information technology and telecommunications are attributable to PCs".

  • Attitudes to collaborative technologies 08 July 2008

    Telstra supported a great report by Climate Risk last year on the opportunities for telecoms companies to reduce emissions. They found that overall, ICT could reduce Australia's emissions by 5%.

  • The SMART 2020 transformation 30 June 2008

    What do data centres, mobile phones or the internet have to do with climate change?

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Interviews

  • John Chambers

    Date:
    05 July 2010

    John Chambers, Chairman and CEO of Cisco, talks to The Climate Group about the role of information and communication technologies (ICT) in creating smart cities, and how they play an integral part of Cisco's work with cities and communities around the world.

  • Josep Roig

    Date:
    30 June 2010

    The Climate Group talks to Josep Roig, Secretary General of Metropolis, about smart cities, the Connected Urban Development project and the role of information and communication technologies (ICT) in helping to scale up new low carbon cities.

  • H.S.H Prince Albert II of Monaco

    Date:
    30 April 2010

    H.S.H Prince Albert II of Monaco talks to The Climate Group about electric vehicles (EVs), the EV20 initiative, and about his Foundation, The Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation, and its role in addressing climate change.

  • Dr Chris Tuppen

    Date:
    22 January 2008

    In an exclusive interview with The °Climate Group, Dr Chris Tuppen, BT's Director of Sustainable Development, discusses how BT, the information and communications technology (ICT) sector as a whole, and a BT-championed electricity labeling scheme are powering people and systems toward a low-carbon future...

  • Bill Weihl

    Date:
    29 June 2007

    Bill Weihl, Google's Green Energy Czar, talks about plans to reduce emissions, engage users and get behind new low carbon technologies...

  • James Murdoch

    Date:
    24 April 2007

    James Murdoch, CEO of BSkyB, talks to The Climate Group about engaging consumers...

  • Mark Kenber

    Date:
    15 June 2005

    Mark Kenber, The Climate Group's Policy Director discusses emissions reductions from transport...

  • Dr Alan Lloyd

    Date:
    08 June 2005

    We discuss California's emission reduction policies with Dr. Alan Lloyd, Secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency.

  • Stephen Pacala

    Date:
    15 October 2004

    The Climate Group talks to Princeton's Stephen Pacala about his and Robert Socolow's latest research, August 2004.

  • Professor Sir David King

    Date:
    29 June 2004

    "There is no bigger problem than climate change. The threat is quite simple, it's a threat to our civilisation."

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Publications

  • China EV20 Report: Executive Summary 03 May 2010

    Date:
    03 May 2010

    The Climate Group launches 'Market Transformation of Low Carbon Technology: Electric Vehicles', a new report that focuses directly on the current developments and arising opportunities for electric vehicles in China.

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