Dr. Malak Al-Nory is an advisor of Sustainability and Climate Change in the Saudi Ministry of Energy. She is an expert in clean energy and clean water integration, innovative solutions, and strategic planning. She is an established researcher with published research collaborations with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and others. She is an […]
The Innovation Community on Affordable Heating and Cooling of Buildings is part of MI’s COLLABORATE module of the Innovation Platform. Our work builds upon recent innovation successes including the Global Cooling Prize, the Comfort and Climate Box and the Predictive Maintenance and Optimisation Project, which involved 50 partners across 15 countries. Our vision is to […]
Anna Skarbek is CEO of ClimateWorks Australia, having led the non-profit since its creation in 2009. A former banker, policy adviser and lawyer, she is also a board member of Impact Investment Group, Green Building Council of Australia and the Centre for New Energy Technologies, and was a founding director of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation. Previously, Anna worked in London’s carbon markets […]
Previous MI funding calls focused on storage and the digital transition The MICall series is one of the four initiatives of the Mission Innovation Platform’s COLLABORATE Module. The MICall series started in 2019 with a transnational joint call for proposals (MICall19) in the field of Energy Storage Solutions. The idea of a joint call is to increase the participation from a wider section of society both to identify the needs of […]
Dr Sang Jun Sim (middle) in his lab. Dr Sang Jun Sim is a professor at Korea University in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering. He has dedicated 20 years to developing carbon capture technologies using microalgae. From the development of the core technologies to the demonstration of large-scale CO2 conversion into value-added products […]
José Amador Honorato Salazar is Mexico’s Mission Innovation Champion for 2020. Amador is a research scientist at the Experimental Centre, Puebla of the National Research Institute of Forestry, Agriculture and Livestock (INIFAP). He is a forest engineer with a major in forest industries technology from Chapingo Autonomous University, and received a PhD in wood science from […]
Jan Arne Wold ©Equinor A new analysis of offshore wind shows how investments helped develop and deploy innovation in the sector By Martina Lyons (Associate Programme Officer at IRENA – Innovation and End-Use sectors) Clean energy technology innovation plays a critical role in accelerating the global energy transition toward net-zero. With the transition rapidly […]
This year, International Energy Agency analysis has stressed the critical need for clean energy innovation in meeting ambitious climate goals such as net-zero emission pledges. To achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, almost half the reductions in 2050 compared with our baseline scenario come from technologies currently at the demonstration or prototype phase. In heavy industry […]
With materials accounting for at least half of clean energy’s costs, new ‘Materials Acceleration Platforms’ are springing up around the world By Dr. Mark S Kozdras (MI Materials for Energy Co-lead, Program Manager at Natural Resources Canada) Materials for Energy (M4E) is a new collaborative initiative within the MI Innovation Platform. Emerging from the success […]
By Helen Fairclough (MI Platform Workstream Lead and Operations Manager) After 18 months of development by MI members and the MI Secretariat it was rewarding to see the launch of the MI Innovation Platform at the Innovating to New Zero Summit on 2 June. The Innovation Platform is a suite of programmes led by and […]
