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…

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 protot…

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 open to all MI members that will inc…

By Marieke Beckmann (Senior Advisor, International Energy Innovation Strategy at the UK’s Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy and Missions Workstream Lead in the MI Secretariat) ———– I joined Mission Innovation (MI) in January 2020, a “super year” in the climate community[1]. The Annual MI Gatheri…

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