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- Webinar & E-Learning 19 December 2024 RETScreen Clean Energy Management Software – enabler for low-carbon planning, implementation, monitoring and reporting (Webinar) - 10.12.2024 ESCOs often face challenges in unleashing the immense potential for achieving global climate goals like limited access to finance, regulatory uncertainty, and a lack of capacity to assess and verify the feasibility and impact of projects. Overcoming these barriers is critical to unlocking the full potential of energy efficiency projects. In this webinar we explore solutions that help ESCOs and project developers address these challenges. Discover practical tools that enable low-carbon planning,…
- Webinar & E-Learning 19 December 2024 Government Actions to Foster the Development of ESCO Markets (Webinar) - 04.12.2024 Attempts to foster ESCO markets in developing countries by replicating Western-style ESCO models have in many instances proven unsuccessful, by replicating ESCO approaches without considering the local legal, financial, accounting and business infrastructure needed for a thriving ESCO market. This webinar provides insights of what developing-country governments can do to foster ESCO markets. The examples, recommendations and discussion are based on lessons learned from international ESCO market…
- News 16 December 2024 Empowering Climate Action through Technology and Innovation at COP29 As the urgency of climate action grows, UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre directed the spotlight on climate technologies as pivotal tools to achieve ambitious global climate targets at COP29 in Baku. Along with partners and countries, the Centre highlighted impacts and potential of technology-driven solutions for mitigation, adaptation, and sustainable development. A series of events featured the potential of climate technologies and of Technology Needs Assessments (TNAs) and Technology Action…
- Publication 10 December 2024 Analysis of success stories from implemented Technology Action Plans (TAPs) Over time and through an iterative process, collective learnings and practical insights from the global- and country- level work on TNAs have informed and enriched the TNA methodology, including through growing guidance3 available to countries and implementation actors. Today, the TNA process has evolved into a step-by-step process that goes beyond technology needs and is geared towards enabling technology implementation and demonstrating technology viability, with a view to closing the gap…
- Publication 10 December 2024 A pre-payment model for Internationally Transferred Mitigation Outcomes under article 6 of the Paris agreement Since the establishment of the first global agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions – the Kyoto Protocol – the idea of trading in emissions units, or emissions reduction, has been an essential part of the architecture, motivated by calculations showing that costs of emissions mitigation vary widely among countries. So why not exploit the more cost-efficient mitigation options first if the intended effect on the atmosphere is the same? With the idea of emissions trading under the Kyoto…
- News 6 December 2024 Interagency collaboration strengthening Pakistan's carbon markets and climate goals Pakistan is currently developing its Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) 3.0 under the Paris Agreement. UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre is joining the efforts in advancing Pakistan’s climate commitments by supporting the development of the "Carbon Markets" section in the NDC. This effort is part of the broader UNDP-led Climate Promise II initiative, which supports Pakistan's Ministry of Climate Change and Environmental Coordination (MoCC&EC). High-integrity carbon markets UNEP…
- Project 5 December 2024 Greening the financial sector in Malawi UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre has supported the Reserve Bank of Malawi throughout 2024 in exploring how the Bank can help the greening of the financial sector in Malawi. Malawi is highly vulnerable to climate change and its financial sector is expected to face increased climate-related financial risks in the near term. The Malawian economy and population are increasingly vulnerable to climate-related disasters, including floods, droughts and cyclones, which can severely damage infrastructure…
- Webinar & E-Learning 29 November 2024 Introducción A La Eficiencia Energética Para Funcionarios Públicos (Webinar) - 07.11.2024 La eficiencia energética es un eje fundamental para cumplir con los objetivos climáticos establecidos en el Acuerdo de París y en el compromiso firmado en la COP28 de “Duplicar la tasa de mejora de la eficiencia energética al 2030”, lo cual representa un gran desafío para los países en desarrollo, como lo son la mayoría de Latino América y el Caribe. Parte de ese desafío consiste en diseminar conocimientos y generar concientización en los funcionarios y empleados de gobiernos nacionales,…