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- News 9 October 2019 Urban mobility under transformation Today, more than 50% of the world’s population live in urban areas. As more than two billion people will be added to the global population in the coming decades and urban populations continue to grow, the question arises: how can people and the goods they require be moved more efficiently than they are today? Today, the transport sector accounts for almost two-thirds of global energy consumption. It produces approximately one-third of global energy-related CO2 emissions and is the primary…
- Event 8 October 2019 Powering Digital Transformation through Sustainable Datacentres - Organized by UNEP DTU Partnership Datacenters have an important role to play in digital transformation. Today’s datacenters have the potential to become a dynamic change agent within smart urban systems. The growth of inefficient datacentre brings irreversible economic and environmental ramifications to the society. Currently, the world's datacentres consumed 3% of global electricity with a growth project to 20% by 2025. These power hungry datacentres now are responsible for 2% of global CO2 emissions, a similar share of the…
- News 24 September 2019 Adaptation metrics - current landscape and evolving practices Adaptation metrics are essential for tracking and assessing adaptation needs, actions, and progress. If used properly, they can enhance our understanding of what works and what does not work, why, and under what circumstances. Although frameworks and metrics to track adaptation are still at the early stages of development and application, there is already sufficient knowledge to help guide future efforts. This new background paper on adaptation metrics published by UNEP DTU Partnership and the…
- News 23 September 2019 New global effort on climate change targets 3% increase in energy efficiency per year A new coalition of countries, businesses and international organizations today committed to driving a three percent global increase in energy efficiency each year – a move that can help limit climate change and increase global prosperity. Launched at the UN Climate Action Summit in New York, the Three Percent Club builds on International Energy Agency (IEA) research showing that the right efficiency policies could deliver over 40 per cent of the emissions cuts needed to reach the goals of the…
- News 23 September 2019 UNEP DTU Partnership contributes to the science behind climate action Today heads of state and world leaders gather in New York for the UN Climate Action Summit. The objective: to create the policy that save the world from rising sea levels, increasing weather extremes and global warming. Policy that is based on the latest climate data and science. Along with other leading science institutions, DTU, through the UNEP DTU Partnership, is delivering the very latest authoritative information to the UN Climate Action Summit. Motivated by the climate crisis, the summit…
- News 22 September 2019 From “lost decade” of climate action, hope emerges The world would seem to have spent the last decade doing the exact opposite of what it should. Despite the warnings in each year’s gap report, emissions are now almost exactly what early gap reports projected they would be in 2020, if the world did nothing to change its polluting growth models. The advances the world did make, such as a boom in renewable energy, were negated by other factors, including faster than anticipated economic growth. Download Lessons From a Decade of Emissions Gap…
- News 21 September 2019 G20 nations are lagging in climate action, but have huge opportunities to increase ambition G20 nations are collectively not on track to meet their Paris Agreement commitments, but they have huge opportunities to undertake rapid and deep cuts to greenhouse gas emissions, according to new UN and UNEP DTU Partnership research. A pre-released chapter of the 2019 Emissions Gap Report shows that G20 members, which account for around 80% of global greenhouse gas emissions, are not yet taking on transformative climate commitments at the necessary breadth and scale. The chapter released ahead…
- Event 20 September 2019 TENTRANS Workshop As the largest and first of its kind in sub-Saharan Africa, REIPPPP offers valuable academic and policy-relevant insights for other countries across the continent and globally that are in the process of designing and adopting similar RE tendering schemes. In particular, important insights can be obtained from studying whether and how REIPPPP has fostered broader developmental objectives. Programme: 9h00 to 9h10 Official welcome Tobias Elling Rehfeld - Ambassador to South Africa, Royal Danish…