ODI Leeds and Project Cygnus
Project Cygnus is a EIT-Climate-KIC funded major new initiative for the UK & Ireland to support regions and countries in their economic recovery from Covid-19 while accelerating their net-zero carbon emission goals. To deliver this ambitious programme of work, Icebreaker One has joined forces with the Global Open Finance Centre of Excellence at the University of Edinburgh, the University College Dublin (UCD) and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
Launch blog post
Starting with the data
Data science apprentice Patrick writes about building a good data foundation for the Project Cygnus work.
Exploring energy efficiency in housing
Old house, cold house?
Energy (under)Performance Certificates
I EPC what you did there
Datasets
Collabroative Google Sheet where you can see and add useful datasets.
Working document
A Google Doc to track useful data, tools, questions, etc.
About Icebreaker One
Icebreaker One is exploring how to rapidly evolve our financial and energy systems to embed net-zero into all investment in a manner that is demonstrable, provable and uses data to hold organisations to account. Its flagship projects include: Project Cygnus, Open Energy and SERI.
Project Cygnus is looking at how 'economic recovery' money can be directed to net-zero. Open Energy is looking at how we can share information across the entire energy grid to keep the lights on and drive towards net-zero. SERI is looking at how insurance can be a lever of change by ensuring that things like net-zero solutions can actually be protected (e.g. some insurers won't insure EV) and drive change so that net-destructive industries are no longer viable.
Icebreaker One is a non-profit, non-partisan organisation funded by EIT Climate-KIC, Innovate UK as part of UK Research and Innovation (SBRI) and private sector members.
