• Event 2 November 2021 The converging agendas of climate change and Energy Service Companies Partners: SE4All, Efficiency Valuation Organization (EVO) Energy Service Companies - ESCOs - deploy a business model directly responding to the global climate change challenge.  By directly using energy savings to pay for the cost of equipment and infrastructure that creates those savings, ESCOs challenge the mantra that emissions reduction comes at a cost that many, particularly in developing countries, are unable to carry.  In the business of climate change, ESCOs deliver some of…
• Event 29 October 2021 Meet us at COP26 World leaders, experts, organisations and the private sector meet with the aim to agree on how to tackle the urgent threat of global climate change. Together with our partners, we will join the efforts to prevent global temperatures from rising above 1.5C and protect our planet and people from the intensifying impacts of climate change. In 40+ events UNEP DTU Partnership will be covering the many issues of climate action and the urgent implementation of the commitments to the Paris Agreement…
• Event 29 October 2021 China’s Remarkable Success in Developing ESCOs: Current Status, Policy Drivers and Prospects China accounts for around 59% of the global ESCO market. The history of the Chinese ESCO market goes back to 1998, over a decade after the appearance of ESCOs in the US and other parts of the developed world. The rapid increases in the number of ESCOs in the market and their growth in market revenue make China a remarkable success story in using ESCO business models as an important instrument for improvements to energy efficiency in industry, commercial and public buildings, and public…
• News 29 October 2021 Methodologies for supporting Costa Rica’s climate aspirations The Initiative for Climate Action Transparency (ICAT) has just concluded a second phase of implementation in Costa Rica, developing guidance for assessing the sustainable development and transformational change impacts of climate change actions. Such guidance is developed with the goal of integrating monitoring of sustainable development and transformation change impacts in the National Climate Change Monitoring System (SINAMECC). To develop the guidance documents, Costa Rica took as a starting…
• News 28 October 2021 Enhancing finance capacities for the Climate Action Enhancement Package (CAEP) in Morocco. This month, UNEP DTU Partnership invited Moroccan practitioners from the government, service provider and NGOs to a two-day workshop building capacity for climate action. The aim of the workshop, organised with the help of the Ministry of Environment of Morocco, was to provide a thorough understanding of climate finance, and the tools associated with it, to more effectively address the challenges of the Moroccan Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) to the Paris Agreement. Recordings of the…
• News 26 October 2021 Updated climate commitments ahead of COP26 fall far short, but net-zero pledges provide hope New and updated climate commitments fall far short of what is needed to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, leaving the world on track for a global temperature rise of at least 2.7°C this century, according to the latest UNEP Emissions Gap Report 2021: The Heat Is On. The Emissions Gap Report is coordinated by UNEP DTU Partnership, and Head of Strategy for Climate Planning and Policy, Anne Olhoff, along with several other UNEP DTU Partnership experts, are among the report’s main authors. …
• News 6 October 2021 Kenya kickstarts a Super ESCO for boosting energy efficiency The government of Kenya has announced the creation of a Super Energy Service Company (ESCO). The Super ESCO will develop and implement energy efficiency projects for both the public and private sectors and will be run by the Kenya Power and Lighting Company. The creation of the Super ESCO is supported by the African Development Bank and is based on Kenya's National Energy Efficiency and Conservation Strategy (KNEECS) developed with technical support from UNEP DTU Partnership's Copenhagen Centre…
• Project 1 October 2021 A Circular Bioeconomy for the Kenyan Dairy Sector (VALORISE) The Global food system is the single largest driver of environmental change, contributing to 24% of global emissions and consuming 70% of the world's blue water. At the same time 2 billion people are live with food insecurity. All this while 24% of calories produced for humans are lost or wasted in the supply chain, and food loss and waste (FLW) represents 3.3 billion tons of GHGs - equivalent to making it the 3rd largest emitting 'country' in the world. Looking at the Kenyan dairy-sector, the…

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