Ember’s next frontier
Ember's co-founder, Phil MacDonald, on our evolving mission and the launch of our new Advisory Board.
Many decision makers rely on yesterday’s data and insights to guide their energy transitions. This makes them too cautious. As a result, the world is not building clean power fast enough, and remains over-reliant on expensive coal and gas.
Over the last few years, Ember’s data, analysis and advocacy has changed energy policy around the world. Our work has directly influenced India’s clean electricity transition plans; definitively changed the debate on the European gas crisis and the RePowerEU policy that resulted from it; and shaped new coal mine methane regulations in the EU Methane Strategy and Australia’s Safeguard Mechanism. Ember’s rapid power sector modelling ability has launched the political conversation on interconnection across Poland and CEE, and we led the campaign that secured the UK’s commitment to a clean power sector for 2035, alongside helping to put a global tripling of renewables on the map.
I’m pleased to share our Impact Report for the first half of 2023. It shows again a huge step up in our reach and impact.
I’m immensely proud of the team’s work to make Ember a significant international champion for a clean, electrified economy. Our rigorous data and analysis is demonstrating that the world is close to achieving the first structural fall in power sector emissions, while continuing to raise awareness of the huge potential to deliver cost-effective methane reductions from coal mines.
Combined with electrification of sectors including transport and heat, humanity can peak total emissions and drive them into a rapid decline this decade – and Ember will be driving that acceleration every step of the way.
As Ember reflects on three years of growing impact, now with a team of 50 energy experts around the world, we’re pleased to announce a new Advisory Board and exciting plans to expand our mission.