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- Publication 3 November 2018 Etude de préfaisabilité d'une centrale électrique à paille de riz
- News 29 October 2018 New project: Adaptation tool-kit for Sri Lankan garment industry The adverse effects of climate change, such as floods, erosion and landslides are increasingly hitting businesses in coastal regions. A new project lead by UNEP DTU Partnership was initiated on the 29th of October in Colombo, Sri Lanka, seeking to help businesses adapt to these effects, to create a positive impact throughout the country. The project aims to develop an innovative and sustainable way to build businesses' adaptation capacity in the garment sector that can later be replicated and…
- News 29 October 2018 Climate model adds transparency to National Reporting and NDC updates Calculating current and future greenhouse gas emissions, and the effects of climate actions is critical in the global struggle to limit the rise in temperatures. Not only are precise calculations a prerequisite for informed political decisions on which actions to take, they are also the foundation for transparent and credible global action. Using the UNEP DTU Partnership GACMO (Greenhouse gas Abatement Cost MOdel) Ghana has increased the transparency on the country's NDC mitigation action and…
- Project 26 October 2018 Initiative for Climate Action Transparency (ICAT) Providing policymakers around the world with tools and support to measure and assess the impacts of their climate actionsThe Initiative for Climate Action Transparency (ICAT) aims to strengthen capacities in developing countries to assess the impacts of their climate policies and actions and to support greater transparency, effectiveness, ambition and trust in climate policies worldwide. The Initiative works with countries to build capacities on understanding and applying tools and approaches…
- News 26 October 2018 Expert from UNEP DTU explains climate change consequences on CNN Chile This week CNN Chile featured a conversation about one of the most important issue facing the world. Climate Change. Senior advisor from UNEP DTU Partnership Dr Fernando Farias was invited to explain which consequences face not only Chile but the entire world because of the changing climate as well as to give his view on the last IPCC report. The message from Dr Farias, based on the latest climate and UNEP DTU Partnership research, was very clear. Global temperatures will rise, and they will…
- Project 23 October 2018 Piloting waste-to-energy solutions in humanitarian contexts A feasibility study for piloting small-scale, turnkey waste-to-energy solutions in Jordan, Turkey and TokelauThis project's overarching goal is reducing public health risk and to stabilize household livelihoods in humanitarian crisis by improving delivery of waste management services, access to energy and income generating activities through implementation of innovative waste-to-energy solutions. In this context, the role of UNEP DTU partnership was to identify appropriate waste-to-energy…
- Project 22 October 2018 Capacity Building Initiative for Transparency (CBIT) Global Coordination Platform Keeping track of transparency initiatives to address capacity building and coordination needsThe CBIT Global Coordination Platform keeps track of national CBIT projects and addresses any lack of national transparency capacities and limited coordination efforts. The aim of this project is to address the lack of a global coordination platform for information sharing and knowledge management on the enhanced transparency framework, as defined by the article 13 of the Paris Agreement. Many…
- Project 22 October 2018 MRV platform for Maldives Designing MRV system with focus on institutional arrangement and guideline for tracking climate finance in the Maldives.The main objective of this project was to propose and design an improved national system for Monitoring Reporting and Verification (MRV) to support the implementation of mitigation actions, and other support received in the Maldives. UNEP DTU Partnership provided an analysis of the existing reporting mechanisms and institutional arrangements for data collection and protocols…