• Podcast 30 August 2024 Leyes de eficiencia energética en Latinoamérica y el Caribe Problem: La eficiencia energética se relaciona directamente con acciones para mitigar el cambio climático. Además, tiene otros beneficios adicionales vinculados con el acceso a la energía, la seguridad energética, la productividad de las economías regionales y la creación de empleo, entre otros. Sin embargo, para lograr acceder al potencial existente de eficiencia energética es necesario derribar distintas barreras: económicas, regulatorias, políticas, institucionales, culturales,…
• Webinar & E-Learning 19 August 2024 Instrumentos financieros para promover la Eficiencia Energética – Experiencias en Latinoamérica (Webinar) - 08.08.2024 Una de las principales barreras con que se encuentra la aplicación de medidas de eficiencia energética en los distintos sectores es el acceso a financiamiento. Por un lado, en ciertos casos se requieren períodos de repago más largos que los esperados para ciertas inversiones debido a la presencia de subsidios a la energía; por otro, los mayores costos iniciales de las tecnologías eficientes no siempre pueden ser afrontados por los usuarios, aún cuando el repago de la mayor inversión se recupere…
• Project 20 February 2020 SOLUTIONSplus SOLUTIONSplus brings together highly committed cities, industry, research, implementing organisations and finance partners and establishes a global platform for shared, public and commercial e-mobility solutions to kick start the transition towards low-carbon urban mobility. Focus is on promoting electric vehicles within cities. The project encompasses city level demonstrations to test different types of innovative and integrated e-mobility solutions, complemented by a comprehensive toolbox,…
• Project 24 September 2018 Technology Needs Assessments (phase I and II) Between 2010 and 2018, UN Environment and UNEP DTU, with financing from the Global Environment Facility, completed two phases of Technology Needs Assessments (TNAs) in more than 60 countries. The overall objective was to go beyond identifying technology needs narrowly, work towards investment.  TNAs also present a unique opportunity for countries to track their needs for new equipment, techniques, services, capacities and skills necessary to mitigate and adapt to climate change. In…
• News 23 August 2018 Call for Latin America & the Caribbean to engage in climate dialogue The event reached its apex with the high-level segment on Wednesday, which was opened by UN Climate Change Executive Secretary, Patricia Espinosa; Brazil’s Minister of Environment, Edson Duarte; and the country’s host, Uruguay’s Minister of Housing, Territorial Planning and Environment, Eneida de León. UNEP DTU Partnership director John Christensen participated in several high-level sessions, among other things moderating a panel discussion on how to link the Paris Agreement with the 2030 SDG…
• News 21 August 2018 The Latin American and Caribbean Climate Week - keeping Kofi Annan's legacy alive Today, the Latin American & Caribbean Climate Week kicked off with an opening ceremony that attracted a notable cast of local and global leaders, representatives from the private sector and environmental organisations and Uruguayan Minister of Housing, Land Planning and Environment of Uruguay, Eneida De Leon, who welcomed attending delegates in Montevideo. The event is organised by the Nairobi Framework Partnership, founded by Kofi Annan in 2006, as a means of bolstering the interlinkages…