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General information

E3G’s mission is to accelerate the global transition to a low carbon economy. E3G was founded in 2004 by senior members of the UK government who were convinced that the main obstacles to an effective response to climate change and wider sustainable development lay not in a lack of analysis or available resources, but in the silo‐based nature of institutions and decision makers.
E3G is the organisational response to this analysis. E3G believes that change is driven by focusing on outcomes not outputs. E3G tackles the political barriers to change by building cross‐sectoral coalitions to achieve carefully defined outcomes; chosen for their capacity to leverage change towards a sustainable low carbon economy and climate resilient society.
E3G is a conscious attempt to build a an organisation that can help drive change inside existing global frameworks at a rate consistent with preserving critical ecological limits. E3G aims to creatively reconcile the conflicting imperatives of day‐to‐day politics with long term climate change.