Multi-Million Dollar Low-Carbon Investment Programmes to be Coordinated in Europe
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The announcement was made in the presence of Walter Deffaa, Director General for Regional and Urban Policy at the European Commission during his visit to Lower Silesia on 27-28 May.Mary Ritter, Climate-KIC Chief Executive Officer commented: “A key aspect of the action required to address the challenges of climate change is to join forces and pioneer new investment alliances.Aled Thomas, Director, Climate-KIC Regions commented: “Both Climate-KIC and Lower Silesia will be investing significant amounts of public and private funding in the low-carbon economy up to 2020 and beyond.The announcement was made in the presence of Walter Deffaa, Director General for Regional and Urban Policy at the European Commission during his visit to Lower Silesia on 27-28 May.Both parties will be making substantial investments in the period running up to 2020.Climate-KIC consists of companies, academic institutions and the public sector.The organisation has its headquarters in London, UK, and leverages its centres across Europe to support start-up companies, to bring together partners on innovation projects and to educate students to bring about a connected, creative transformation of knowledge and ideas into products and services that help mitigate and adapt to climate change.Climate-KIC is one of the Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs) created in 2010 by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), the EU body tasked with creating sustainable European growth while dealing with the global challenges of our time.http://www.climate-kic.org/press-releases/climate-kic-to-unveil-multimillion-euro-investment-in-four-climate-change-innovation-programmes-at-european-business-summit/http://www.climate-kic.org/press-releases/climate-innovation-initiative-to-scale-up-efforts-throughout-2014-receives-e63m-eu-boost/ Contact Information Climate-KIC Angela Howarth, Head of Communications +44 (0) 20 7492 1972 www.climate-kic.org Click here to view the list of recent Press Releases from Climate-KIC