{"id":88,"date":"2006-11-27T01:36:43","date_gmt":"2006-11-27T01:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dgen.net\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/11\/27\/climate-change-another-step-closer\/"},"modified":"2006-11-27T01:39:41","modified_gmt":"2006-11-27T01:39:41","slug":"climate-change-another-step-closer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/2006\/11\/27\/climate-change-another-step-closer\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Change – another step closer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following my presentation<\/a> at Eurofoo<\/a> on 19th Sept 2006, things have been moving along in “interesting ways”. It’s always frustrating not having enough time and wading through a lot of politics\/copyright\/etc, but we’re getting very close to making our first proper announcements (watch this space).<\/p>\n

There’s going to be a huge amount of activity over the coming months and I’ll be updating this blog more frequently in a more open way, once a couple more bits of jigsaw are in place – Lincon’s “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe” quote springs to mind, although in this case we’re not chopping the trees down.<\/p>\n

One of the interesting areas I’ve been catapulted into has been in the area of “donations”, and how they should be used. Given that Man Group<\/a> are one of the funders of Global Cool, and the GC board include Dr Steve Howard of the Climate Group<\/a>; Dr Richard Tipper of the Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Management<\/a>; James Cameron, Chairman of Climate Change Capital<\/a>; it’s been amazing to work with some of the most knowledgable people in the field.<\/p>\n

I was honoured, therefore, to be nominated Chairman of the Executive Committee to work out how donations should be used. This has involved a massive amount of learning on my part to really try and understand how the (controversial) Carbon Markets<\/a> work, what goes well, what goes wrong, what the ‘least bad’ options are… and what messages should be sent out to the investment communities if they are looking to invest $trillions into renewable energies over the next decade.<\/p>\n

The d::gen team<\/a> have also been working hard on the “Carbon Calculator” project that I spoke of at Eurofoo and we’ll be making announcements about that over the next few weeks. Remember, we will release any useful software at least<\/span> under a General Public License<\/a> (ie. free) and any content under a Creative Commons<\/a> \u201cattribution, non-commercial, share-alike<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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