The Carbon War Room

Carbon war room s goal.

The carbon war room.

Moving forward the carbon war room aims to continue the strong partnership with cci and momentum to achieving cci countries who which to transition off fossil fuels through raising awareness around the benefits of renewable energy and improving the quality of life for the caribbean. To accelerate the adoption of business solutions to advance the low carbon economy. The carbon war room is an international non governmental organization and think tank working on issues regarding market based solutions to climate change. Published on october 10 2013.

The carbon war room a new and self described philanthropic initiative aiming to fight climate change with help from entrepreneurs is stepping into the limelight with its first target. While the document focuses more on the opportunity to transform the energy sector from one that depends on fossil fuels to one that is fundamentally renewable there is also consideration of the many sectors that rely on this energy system to. The carbon war room harnesses the power of entrepreneurs to unlock gigaton scale market driven solutions to climate change. 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.

Busting the barriers that block such strategies from widespread deployment is the goal of the carbon war room founded by entrepreneurs like sir richard branson. It was founded by virgin group ceo richard branson and merged with the rocky mountain institute in december 2014. 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 secure low carbon future and together they work across all energy sectors to accelerate the energy transition and reduce carbon emissions. 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.

In 2014 carbon war room merged into rocky mountain institute because we knew we could do more both faster and better together than we could do apart. While its main offices are in london new york city and washington d c carbon war room also has associates around the world. Over 50 of the climate change c. Rmi engages businesses communities institutions and entrepreneurs to accelerate the adoption of market based solutions that cost effectively shift from fossil fuels to efficiency and renewables.

Rocky mountain institute rmi s mission is to transform global energy use to create a clean prosperous and secure low carbon future.