Carbon War Room Islands

Kenred dorsett minister of the environment and housing bahamas and justin locke carbon war room s director of islands signed a memorandum of understanding mou establishing a partnership to expedite the country s transformation towards renewable energy production and energy efficiency.

Carbon war room islands.

Carbon war room s goal. Through the carbon war room s ten island renewable challenge countries can complement the support from cci with business advisory services technical assistance and communication marketing to realize their fossil fuel free future. What is the carbon war room. Branson s carbon war room ngo is aiming to help islands in the region transition from expensive fossil fuel imports to using their own renewable energy resources as part of its ten island challenge programme.

Countries that have already jointed the ten island challenge include aruba grenada and saint lucia. It was founded by virgin group ceo richard branson and merged with the rocky mountain institute in. The british virgin islands the turks and caicos islands san andrés and providencia belize saint vincent and the grenadines and saint lucia. In december 2014 carbon war room cwr merged with the rocky mountain institute rmi a us based ngo dedicated to transforming global energy use to create a clean prosperous and.

To accelerate the adoption of business solutions to advance the low carbon economy. Led the clean energy transition planning process and supported the development of roadmaps for six islands to build low carbon futures. It engaged directly in markets to generate business led solutions in maritime shipping buildings aviation and other sectors and it prioritized the flow of capital to low carbon solutions as the key metric of success. While its main offices are in london new york city and washington d c carbon war room also has associates around the world.