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.
Carbon war room shipping.
Carbon war room was incubated by richard branson and virgin unite in 2009.
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.
Virgin unite remains one of the main partners funders and strategic supporters of the alliance s work.
Carbon war room accelerates the adoption of business solutions that reduce carbon emissions at gigaton scale and advance the low carbon economy.
Carbon war room s goal.
It was founded by virgin group ceo richard branson and merged with the rocky mountain institute in.
Shipping efficiency was launched by the carbonwar room and rightship to increase information flows and transparency around the efficiency of the international shipping fleet.
What has rmi cwr achieved so far.
Carbon war room s idea was to identify and work in industries with significant carbon emissions and market barriers to their reduction.
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.