Climate-KIC head stresses open innovation to meet climate targets
The chief executive of Climate-KIC has called on innovators and entrepreneurs to step up their ‘open innovation’ efforts to bring down CO2 emission levels.
Bertrand van Ee said action was also needed in order to boost the clean economy and exceed current targets.
Following recent commitments to further cut greenhouse gas emissions by world leaders in the United States, China and across Europe, van Ee is urging innovators to harness the new momentum to develop the tools and technologies that will deliver more emission reductions, and create more jobs in the clean economy.
Commenting, van Ee said: “With the US and China now following the EU’s lead in their commitment to deal with climate change, policy makers around the world have set clear targets. It is now up to the world’s innovators to deliver more solutions to bring down CO2 levels. Our aim should be to not just meet current targets, but to exceed them by practicing ‘open innovation’ to speed up the process and share both the risks and rewards among partners.”
Later today at the European Parliament’s ‘6th European Innovation Summit’ in Brussels, van Ee will stress that the answer to delivering goals set by policy makers lies in ‘open innovation’ where partners both share the risks and reward of innovation. He says more collaboration will deliver results sooner and boost national and regional economies in both Europe and around the world.
