Carbon War Room Ten Island Challenge

Department of energy office of energy efficiency and renewable energy and that the carbon war room will also be using the playbook as the implementation strategy for its ten island challenge.

Carbon war room ten island challenge.

Convention on climate change challenged the carbon war room to work with ten caribbean islands to accelerate their transition off fossil fuels. Launched in 2012 at rio 20 the ten island challenge is a project to move electrical generation on islands to sustainable sources of power instead of the diesel generators they currently depend on. The carbon war room is a nonprofit organization founded by sir richard branson and others which aims to accelerate the adoption of business solutions that reduce carbon emissions at the gigaton scale and advance low carbon economies. We accepted that challenge and formed the ten island challenge.

About carbon war room the carbon war room is a global nonprofit founded by sir richard branson and a team of like minded entrepreneurs that accelerates the adoption of business solutions that reduce carbon emissions at gigaton scale and. The turks and caicos islands has committed to working to increase renewable energy production and energy efficiency through a memorandum of understanding mou signed with the carbon war room and the rocky mountain institute to join the ten island challenge initiative which supports caribbean islands in moving away from fossil fuel dependence by identifying technical. They go on to state that the document was made possible through the leadership and support of the u s. Countries that have already jointed the ten island challenge include aruba grenada and saint lucia.

Since may 2013 the carbon war room has convened multiple workshops meetings in aruba and the british virgin isles for island governments and the private sector to support the cci and ten island challenge. Watch this video to learn more about the ten island challenge. Carbon war room press release ten island challenge brochure iisd rs story on turks and caicos in ten. Bringing renewables to sir richard branson s home on necker island.