• News 24 September 2019 Adaptation metrics - current landscape and evolving practices Adaptation metrics are essential for tracking and assessing adaptation needs, actions, and progress. If used properly, they can enhance our understanding of what works and what does not work, why, and under what circumstances. Although frameworks and metrics to track adaptation are still at the early stages of development and application, there is already sufficient knowledge to help guide future efforts. This new background paper on adaptation metrics published by UNEP DTU Partnership and the…
• News 22 September 2019 From “lost decade” of climate action, hope emerges The world would seem to have spent the last decade doing the exact opposite of what it should. Despite the warnings in each year’s gap report, emissions are now almost exactly what early gap reports projected they would be in 2020, if the world did nothing to change its polluting growth models. The advances the world did make, such as a boom in renewable energy, were negated by other factors, including faster than anticipated economic growth. Download Lessons From a Decade of Emissions Gap…
• Event 20 September 2019 TENTRANS Workshop As the largest and first of its kind in sub-Saharan Africa, REIPPPP offers valuable academic and policy-relevant insights for other countries across the continent and globally that are in the process of designing and adopting similar RE tendering schemes. In particular, important insights can be obtained from studying whether and how REIPPPP has fostered broader developmental objectives. Programme: 9h00 to 9h10 Official welcome Tobias Elling Rehfeld - Ambassador to South Africa, Royal Danish…
• Publication 17 September 2019 Identifying and prioritising technologies for climate change adaptation Determining technologies for climate change adaptation - A hands-on guidance to multi criteria analysis (MCA) and the identification and assessment of related criteria.
• News 9 September 2019 Asia Can Lead Global Transformation towards Low Carbon and Resilience Asia-Pacific Climate Week in Bangkok, Thailand (APCW 2019) wrapped up on Friday, with participants agreeing  on what steps urgently need to be taken for the region to be able to profit from the advantages of the transition to low carbon and to be able to build resilience to the worst impacts of climate change. The compelling social and economic reasons to rapidly shift to low carbon and resilience were outlined by high-level speakers who warned that current levels of ambition to tackle…
• News 5 September 2019 Blockchain hackathon win for UNEP DTU Partnership researcher Innovative technologies and solutions are needed to reach the goals set out in the Paris Agreement if we are to reach our goals of a climate resilient world. Combining UNEP DTU Partnership research in blockchain technology with practical application of the technology resulted in a first place at a blockchain hackathon at the European Blockchain Center. UNEP DTU Partnership PhD researcher Marco Schletz was part of the team that worked on a use case presented by the EU Commission to develop “real…
• News 26 August 2019 LAC Climate Week Calls for Urgent, Ambitious Action The Latin American and Caribbean Climate Week closed last week with calls for more ambition and stronger collaboration among all levels of government, the private sector and civil society. Around 4,000 people participated in the Latin America and Caribbean Climate Week (LACCW) with a focus on implementing national climate plans and achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement. Taking place in the Brazilian city of Salvador, the Climate Week sent a message of solidarity with all the people of…
• News 9 August 2019 Ukraine's first TNA report sets course for mitigation action Ukraine and the Technology Needs Assessment (TNA) project has published a new report prioritising technologies for climate change mitigation. The report will not only guide the transfer of green technology and development in the Eastern European country, but also feed into the new Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) to the Paris Agreement. As well as being the first TNA report from Ukraine, it is also the first report from the 23 countries currently in the third phase of the TNA project…

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