The carbon war room s big move to help the shipping industry reduce emissions rocky mountain institute rmi carbon war room cwr is the world leader when it comes to tackling climate change through market based solutions.
Carbon war room shipping.
Early industry stakeholder talks included a fortuitous meeting between an investor banker friend of a friend of branson s and a danish entrepreneur and inventor of a shipping industry air micro bubble.
Shipping efficiency was launched by the carbonwar room and rightship to increase information flows and transparency around the efficiency of the international shipping fleet.
To accelerate the adoption of business solutions to advance the low carbon economy.
While its main offices are in london new york city and washington d c carbon war room also has associates around the world.
Following a highly successful shipping and maritime working track at the carbon war room s recent creating climate wealth event in berlin led by blue s managing director alisdair pettigrew and research executive catherine mcmillan carbon war room has released a video that explains its latest work to influence the shipping industry to reduce carbon profitably.
What has rmi cwr achieved so far.
Carbon war room accelerates the adoption of business solutions that reduce carbon emissions at gigaton scale and advance the low carbon economy.
It was founded by virgin group ceo richard branson and merged with the rocky mountain institute in.
Virgin unite remains one of the main partners funders and strategic supporters of the alliance s work.
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.
Carbon war room was incubated by richard branson and virgin unite in 2009.