by Wen Hoe | Apr 25, 2017
New York, 25 April, 2017 – Today at the Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) Future of Energy Summit hundreds of leaders in clean energy and finance voted for two Fire Awards winners from amongst four finalists that presented their businesses in an extremely close...
by Angel Jacob | Apr 25, 2017
New York – Today at the Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) Future of Energy Summit, hundreds of leaders in clean energy and finance voted for two Fire Awards winners from amongst four finalists that presented their businesses in an extremely close pitch competition....
by Angel Jacob | Dec 6, 2016
December 6, 2016 London – The Fire Awards have announced the selection of four finalists to pitch their financial innovations for the acceleration of green growth at the annual Bloomberg New Energy Finance Future of Energy Summit in April 2017. The four finalists were...
by Angel Jacob | Oct 19, 2016
October 19, 2016 A blog post by Gloria Coleman, Senior Analyst, Climate Policy Initiative, Fire Awards Secretariat In the six months following the Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) Future of Energy Summit in New York, there have been several successful outcomes for...
by Wen Hoe | Sep 19, 2016
Submit ideas at http://www.ClimateFinanceIdeas.org New York—Today, in the margins of Climate Week, a network of investors, governments, businesses, and foundations launched a call for ideas to accelerate finance for climate mitigation and adaptation. “Nations and...
by Angel Jacob | Sep 16, 2016
Since FiRe began, its goal has been to accelerate powerful, actionable business models that can drive new finance for clean energy and green growth. Over the last three years, FiRe has helped advance the pay-as-you-go solar industry in Africa; promote energy...
by Angel Jacob | Apr 5, 2016
New York, April 5, 2016 – Finance for Resilience (FiRe), a platform to crowdsource and champion new ideas to accelerate finance for clean energy, low-carbon infrastructure, and sustainable cities, today announced the four 2016 winners of its annual competition at the...
by Angel Jacob | Mar 3, 2016
Winners to be announced at Bloomberg New Energy Finance Future of Energy Summit in New York on April 5 London, March 3, 2016 – Finance for Resilience (FiRe) today announced the selection of eight finalists in its annual competition for financial innovations to drive...
by Angel Jacob | Feb 17, 2016
At COP21, world leaders signed on to a new global climate deal that aims to limit world temperature rise to well below two degrees, continue $100 billion a year in climate finance, and ramp up action every five years. Businesses, and regions also committed to work to...
by Angel Jacob | Oct 13, 2015
LONDON—Today, at the first European Regional Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) Summit in London, Bloomberg Philanthropies, BNEF, and Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) launched the third funding cycle for the Finance for Resilience (FiRe) initiative, an innovative...
by Angel Jacob | Oct 1, 2015
The CarbonCount™ methodology, which became a FiRe winner in April 2015, is now fully operational, having been used to certify the greenhouse gas emissions reductions of a $118 million “green” bond offering completed on September 30, 2015 by Hannon Armstrong...
by Angel Jacob | Apr 27, 2015
Creating a debt fund for prepaid energy access is a winning FiRe intervention, championed by Simon Bransfield-Garth of Azuri Technologies Ltd in 2014. The fund would provide debt finance to prepaid energy service providers, securitised against the assets and forward...
by Angel Jacob | Apr 20, 2015
Four high impact innovations to speed up the provision of finance for clean energy in developed and developing countries have been selected as Finance for Resilience (FiRe) winners for 2015, at the leading international conference on the future of energy. Delegates at...
by Angel Jacob | Mar 17, 2015
The FiRe panel of energy and finance experts has pre-selected eight new ideas with significant potential to accelerate investment in clean energy and climate finance worldwide. The panel convened on 11 March to choose eight finalists from the top 24 proposals that had...
by Angel Jacob | Feb 16, 2015
On 12 February, 2015, Finance for Resilience (FiRe) co-hosted a workshop with one of its last year’s winners, Suzanne Buchta from Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML) and her colleagues. The workshop aimed to educate and generate discussion and debate among key...
by Angel Jacob | Feb 11, 2015
One of the six FiRe 2014 winners, Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), launched its Business Renewables Center (BRC) at the start of the month. The BRC accelerates investment flows from large companies into clean energy projects, aiming to double the installed capacity for...
by cpilabs | Sep 19, 2017
*In January 2022, the Lightsmith group announced the final closing of Lightsmith Climate Resilience, based on CRAFT. Read more. In addition to being selected to move forward in the 2016-2017 Global Lab cycle, CRAFT was also a finalist in the 2016 Fire Awards. Between...
by Angel Jacob | Apr 25, 2017
2017 Fire Awards Finalist In addition to being selected as a 2017 Fire Awards Finalist, Solar Agro-Processing Stations was also shortlisted for the 2016-2017 India Lab cycle. Champion Stewart Craine, Managing Director, Village Infrastructure Angels About 1.2 billion...
by Joseph Mabe | Apr 5, 2016
2016 Fire Awards Finalist Champion Maurice Meehan, Director of Shipping Operations, Carbon War Room About Maritime shipping accounts for 2.4% of global GHG emissions – Depending on future economic and energy developments, projected to increase by 50% to 250% in the...
by Angel Jacob | Dec 3, 2015
In addition to being selected as a shortlisted idea for the Global Lab 2015-2016 cycle, CEIA was also a finalist in the 2016 Fire Awards. Private investors require high-quality, vetted and de-risked projects that are “construction ready” (e.g. all permits, licenses,...
