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- Publication 21 May 2024 Regulatory Barriers for Energy Service Companies - 3rd edition In this third edition of “Regulatory Barriers for ESCOs”, 25 ESCO associations have provided comprehensive answers to 15 questions that illuminate different aspects of regulatory barriers for ESCOs. The formulation of the questions was informed and inspired by interviews that were conducted in 2021 for the first edition of this publication, where focused interviews with 10 ESCO associations served as the basis for the analysis. The renewed analysis has been performed from March to May 2023 and…
- News 16 May 2024 Unlocking carbon finance to decarbonize cement and waste sectors in Pakistan Pakistan is advancing carbon finance efforts under the Paris Agreement's Article 6 through the Supporting Preparedness for Article 6 Cooperation (SPAR6C) programme. A recent mission and series of bilateral meetings and workshops organized by SPAR6C and led by a multidisciplinary team of experts from the UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre and GFA Consulting have garnered significant momentum. The mission, spanning from 16 to 30 April, aimed to strengthen strategic collaborations with provincial…
- News 14 May 2024 Creating a market for off-grid e-cooking in Africa Today, nearly four in five people in Africa cook their meals over open fires and traditional stoves, using wood, charcoal, animal dung, and other polluting fuels. This has dire impacts on health, gender equality and the environment, with women and children bearing the worst consequences. At the same time, cooking with biomass such as wood and charcoal amounts for as much as 2% of all CO2 emissions, while the extensive reliance on wood for cooking is contributing to deforestation, worsening the…
- Publication 10 May 2024 Powering progress: Market creation strategies for solar e-cooking in off-grid and displaced communities In the pursuit of sustainable development and climate resilience, off-grid solar electric cooking (e-cooking) technologies is a dual solution encompassing both climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies. Globally, cooking with biomass amounts for as much as 2% of CO2 emissions. Given the rapid advances and price reductions in solar e-cooking technologies, there is an opportunity to scale these solutions to help close the emissions gap and deliver a range of co-benefits in support of…
- News 7 May 2024 Unlocking Climate Action in Belize: Using the GACMO tool The Belizean effort to combat the climate crisis has received a significant boost through a training programme aimed at enhancing the country's capabilities in implementing the Enhanced Transparency Framework under the Paris Agreement. The programme, which contains a series of training workshops, is carried out under the Initiative for Climate Action Transparency (ICAT) by UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre. Central to this initiative is the Greenhouse Gas Abatement Cost Model (GACMO), a newly…
- Event 6 May 2024 Building Resilient Cities: The role of urban nature-based solutions for climate change mitigation and adaptation. *Closed for registrations* The future of the world’s population is urban. Urbanization rates are rapidly increasing worldwide, compounding climate risks and exacerbating vulnerabilities in cities. In the Global South, the fast urbanization only further pressure existing infrastructure and hinder local government’s capacity to plan for climate-change resilient development at landscape levels and in the long run. While being hit hard by the impacts of the climate crisis, cities are…
- News 2 May 2024 Eurasian Countries Strengthen Climate Transparency Last week, Tbilisi, Georgia, hosted a transformative three-day training to strengthen greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory reporting under the Paris Agreement's Enhanced Transparency Framework. The event brought together more than forty participants from fifteen countries across Eurasia, Central Asia, and the Caucasus. The training titled “Deep-dive into preparation and reporting of results of national GHG inventories under the Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF) of the Paris Agreement” was…
- Project 1 May 2024 Global Platform for Urban Climate neutrality (GPUC) Cities are an important engine for global economic growth and socio-economic development. By 2030, almost 5 billion people (about 60 percent of the global population) will live in cities, leading to massive requirements for energy to power growth and expand basic infrastructure. Energy efficiency can offer practical solutions to budget-constrained cities to meet their energy needs without sacrificing development or environmental priorities. In recent years, cities have increasingly been…