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.
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 s goal.
It was founded by virgin group ceo richard branson and merged with the rocky mountain institute in.
To accelerate the adoption of business solutions to advance the low carbon economy.
What is the carbon war room.
The carbon war room cwr is an international non governmental organization ngo and think tank working on issues regarding market based 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.
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.
While its main offices are in london new york city and washington d c carbon war room also has associates around the world.
Countries that have already jointed the ten island challenge include aruba grenada and saint lucia.
This week the bahamas joined the push committing to developing 20mw of solar pv generation in the outer family islands bringing energy.
The british virgin islands the turks and caicos islands san andrés and providencia belize saint vincent and the grenadines and saint lucia.