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- News 1 December 2020 Fourth round of Technology Needs Assessments is underway This fall, 17 countries have started their Technology Needs Assessment (TNA) in the fourth round of the global TNA project. Through the TNA project, the countries, consisting of Small Island Developing States and Least Developed Countries, will get a clearer understanding of what kind of technologies are best suited to their specific climate change situation. TNAs are a significant instrument in developing countries efforts to not only determine which technologies best suit their need…
- News 30 November 2020 Fourth round of Technology Needs Assessments is underway This fall, 17 countries have started their Technology Needs Assessment (TNA) in the fourth round of the global TNA project. Through the TNA project, the countries, consisting of Small Island Developing States and Least Developed Countries, will get a clearer understanding of what kind of technologies are best suited to their specific climate change situation. TNAs are a significant instrument in developing countries efforts to not only determine which technologies best suit their need for…
- Webinar & E-Learning 30 November 2020 Applying Behavioral Insights for Cost-effective Energy Efficiency Interventions (Webinar) - 30.11.2020 Recent developments of behavioural sciences offer valuable insights on human thinking and choices. They indicate the existence of many common human biases; the context and considerations other than personal utility maximization often affect human decisions. Governments around the world are integrating these findings into the designing of their policies and measures. The advantage of gentle nudging for scaling up energy efficiency actions is its low cost and high effectiveness. This…
- Webinar & E-Learning 30 November 2020 Enhancing Energy Efficiency (EE) in Mozambique - eTraining Session 7 (Webinar) Module 3 - Energy Efficiency in water provision 3.1 Energy Efficiency in Water Supply Opportunities for Energy Efficiency in Water Supply. 3.2 Improving Energy Efficiency in Water Supply Challenges, Options, and International Support.
- Publication 27 November 2020 Brief - Taxonomy of Climate Change Adaptation Technology UNEP DTU Partnership together with the Green Technology Center- Korea (GTC – K), a government-funded research institute under the Ministry of Science and ICT Korea, have collaborated on the development of a taxonomy for adaptation technologies in the context of the Technology Needs Assessment (TNA) project. Enhancing the development, transfer and uptake of technology is a key pillar of the international response to climate change. Although the need for technology and the importance of climate…
- News 26 November 2020 First LEDs arrive in historic bundling investment This month, LED street lights started to arrive in nine municipalities in Argentina, a result of a new bundling of investments in energy efficiency at local level throughout the country. The nine municipalities are part of the Argentinean Network of Municipalities Against Climate Change (RAMCC), which entered into a historical agreement to purchase LED luminaires to replace conventional street lighting bulbs through a trust fund in early 2020. The establishment of the trust fund and bundling of…
- Webinar & E-Learning 26 November 2020 Enhancing Energy Efficiency (EE) in Mozambique - eTraining Session 6 (Webinar) Module 2 - Existing services and commercial buildings 2.5 Energy Efficiency training – HVAC systems (Part – 2) Performance assessments of HVACs, EE measures and examples. 2.6 Energy Efficiency training – Lighting systems Cost effective solutions that improve the energy performance of lighting. 2.7 Household appliances Optional – an in-depth understanding of the user requirements necessary.
- Event 24 November 2020 Finance workshop Despite the large deployments of capital into the clean energy sector in Kenya, to date only a few local commercial banks in Kenya are involved in financing domestic solar PV companies. This workshop brings together representatives from local commercial banks, Kenyan solar PV companies as well as sector experts to advance the discussion of issues that hinder local companies in obtaining loans from commercial banks and to co-create new ideas on how domestic financing can be expanded and cater to…