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- News 10 September 2021 New guidebook: Climate Tech in an urban context New guidebook: Climate Tech in an urban context Cities account for an ever increasing part of the world's consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. New guide shows way to active participation in green tech transfer and climate action. Cities are not only home to growing consumption and production activities, making them large consumers of energy and major greenhouse gas emitters, they also face major challenges from climate change impacts, including heatwaves, pluvial and river flooding,…
- Publication 9 September 2021 Organizing collective action: Does information and communication technology matter? In recent years, there have been significant changes in the fields of collective action and political activism. The increasing use of ICTs in social interactions has facilitated informal ways of organizing and affected the participation, emergence, and organizing of conflictual and consensual collective actions. In this study we seek to understand how the integrated use of multiple ICTs, that is the ICT ensemble, affects the organizing of consensual collective action. We investigated the ICT…
- Event 9 September 2021 Scaling up Super ESCOs and ESCOs in Africa The African Development Bank is hosting a workshop on September 14th on aspects of ESCO development on the African continent. Both the chairman of the Global ESCO Network, Søren E. Lütken, and the co-chair, Mr. Pierre Langlois, president of Econoler, will be speaking at the event, which will highlight the prospects for both ESCOs and Super ESCOs for the achievement of energy efficiency and climate goals.
- Publication 9 September 2021 Climate technologies in an urban context This guidebook is produced as part of the GEF-Funded Global Technology Needs Assessment (TNA) Project, which is implemented by UNEP and UNEP DTU Partnership. Since 2009, close to one hundred countries have joined the Global TNA Project. Urban areas are home to an increasingly large share of the world’s population. As a result, a growing proportion of global greenhouse gas emissions are stemming from activities located in cities and towns, where many of the adverse impacts of global warming are…
- Webinar & E-Learning 8 September 2021 Building trust in ESCOs in a developing country context: the case of Kenya (Webinar) – 24.08.2021 To achieve their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), developing countries need to enhance their efforts and skills to make improvements in energy efficiency that require relatively less investment. Energy Service Companies (ESCOs) are recognized as potentially important contributors to such improvements, but the ESCO markets are not yet well developed in developing countries. Kenya has a relatively blank sheet of paper for developing the right frameworks for ESCOs to address the…
- News 8 September 2021 Climate Finance training - transparency and reporting workshop Last week 30 participants from Panama including the Minister of Energy, national bank representatives and technical teams from the Panamanian ministry of environment as well as NDC counterparts in other ministries, joined the climate finance training of The Climate Action Enhancement Package (CAEP), facilitated by UNEP DTU Partnership experts. Through a webinar followed by two workshops, the training covered introductions, discussions, and group work on concepts such as reporting methodologies,…
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- Publication 4 September 2021 Application of environmental ecological strategy in smart city space architecture planning A smart city requires the organic integration of a good ecological environment with people’s healthy life, so that the city can achieve the purpose of economic construction and ecological environmental protection. In this case, the spatial layout of a smart city must be based on the ecological environment. Under the guidance of the concept of ecological protection, the ecological space of smart cities is not only green space and parks. At the same time, the building communities in the city and…