When the Carbon War Room was launched with the ambitious goal of driving gigaton reductions in carbon emissions while enabling business profits in the process, Shipping was an obvious sector of opportunity, and became its first sphere of operations. Chief Operating Officer Peter Boyd says: “Right at the beginning, as we were forming the Carbon War Room, an entrepreneur in the Shipping field approached us and said: ‘The market is broken—I have a brilliant technology, but no one is buying it.’”

Carbon War Room Founder, Strive Masiyiwa Joins Advisory Board

Washington DC, May 21 2013:

The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, joined with the President of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, to convene the inaugural meeting of the Upper Level Advisory Board to the UN’s Sustainable Energy for All Initiative (SE4All). The SE4All Initiative is a multi-stakeholder partnership between governments, the private sector, and civil society.