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- News 8 March 2018 African Climate Week to speed up solutions Africa is a continent with great potential in climate-friendly development, but also a continent, where many countries already feel the negative effects of climate change. Public and private organisations and companies are invited to develop and launch climate action in the first Africa Climate Week, which will take place on 9-13. April 2018 in Nairobi, Kenya. Africa Climate Week will be a recurring annual event and is held this year for the first time. An important part of the week will be to…
- News 7 March 2018 Sustainable Energy for All Forum 2018 More than 750 leaders from government, business, civil society and international organizations will gather 2-3 May 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal for the 2018 Sustainable Energy for All Forum. The 2018 Forum, “Leaving No One Behind”, will take place at a pivotal juncture for accelerating progress on global sustainable energy goals — under Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7 — and the Paris Climate Agreement. At stake are significant populations that are missing out on education, health, jobs and…
- News 5 March 2018 UNEP DTU researcher awarded Ksenia Petrichenko from the Copenhagen Centre on Energy Efficiency, a UNEP DTU programme, has won the ‘Best Young Energy Efficiency Researcher Award’ at the World Sustainable Energy Days held in Austria last week. The World Sustainable Energy Days is one of Europe’s largest annual conferences in this field and brings together more than 700 delegates from over 50 countries from business, public sector and the research community. Ksenia Petrichenko was rewarded for a paper titled "Role of Energy…
- News 5 March 2018 UNEP DTU researcher awarded Ksenia Petrichenko from the Copenhagen Centre on Energy Efficiency, a UNEP DTU programme, has won the ‘Best Young Energy Efficiency Researcher Award’ at the World Sustainable Energy Days held in Austria last week. The World Sustainable Energy Days is one of Europe’s largest annual conferences in this field and brings together more than 700 delegates from over 50 countries from business, public sector and the research community. Ksenia Petrichenko was rewarded for a paper titled Role of Energy…
- News 22 February 2018 "For climate change, size doesn't matter" Life in the Maldives is changing. Beaches and, reefs are disappearing and harvesting rainwater is becoming difficult. All because of climate change. But positive developments are also happening because of the country's efforts to do something about a global problem. Even though emissions from the Maldives only account for 0,003 % of the global total, the small island state remains committed to becoming a Low Carbon Economy, and contributing to the goals set forth in the Paris Agreement. "We are…
- Webinar & E-Learning 19 February 2018 Piensa globalmente, actúa localmente - Acciones de eficiencia energética en Argentina y Rosario (Webinar) - 08.03.2018 Este seminario Web se enfoca sobre Argentina y particularmente la ciudad de Rosario, tratando los siguientes temas: Nivel nacional: El desarrollo de las políticas para la eficiencia energética en Argentina; Nivel inter-ciudades: Los desafíos y oportunidades para la eficiencia energética en municipios de Argentina (Red Argentina de Municipios frente al Cambio Climático); Nivel intra-ciudades: Las acciones de eficiencia energética a nivel local en la ciudad de Rosario; Las oportunidades de…
- News 14 February 2018 ADMIRE result: Colombia cuts taxes for green cook stoves A new tax incentive in Colombia means that more families will get the possibility to use cook stoves that are better for the environment and their health. Funded by DANIDA, Colombian organisation Fundación Natura has been working with UNEP DTU to promote the use of more efficient cook stoves in Colombia since early 2016. The effort to make the tax incentive a reality is part of a project to create a market for improved cook stoves that benefits the poor rural population. The changes in taxes on…
- News 7 February 2018 Chilean schools get solar power through ADMIRE pilot project A public private partnership in Chile will supply schools with green energy while setting out to prove that there is a business case in investments in sustainable energy in public institutions. The 31st of January 2018 the Chilean initiative for local energy investments (Concurso de Implementación de Proyectos de Inversión Energética Local) announced that five local communities had been chosen to receive funding for energy efficiency projects. Among those is a project to install solar panels…