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- News 8 June 2016 UNEP DTU Partnership celebrates its 25 year anniversary UNEP DTU Partnership came together in full strength along with its partners to mark the occasion of its 25 years working on energy, climate and sustainable development at the UN city today. To celebrate this silver jubilee milestone, a panel of luminaries was organized who commented on UNEP DTU's work and continuing significance, encouraging it to continue its central role in bringing research on new technologies to policy makers, its leading efforts at analytical and advisory services as well…
- Webinar & E-Learning 6 June 2016 Tools for Building Energy Efficiency: Resources for Policy and Project Implementation (Webinar) - 02.06.2016 Under the umbrella of Sustainable Energy for All Global Energy Efficiency Accelerator Platform, the Copenhagen Centre on Energy Efficiency (C2E2) in collaboration with the World Resource Institute (WRI) is hosting a no-cost, webinar-based training on available analytical tools that can help cities, subnational governments and local stakeholders in accelerating energy efficiency actions in the building sector. This is the third event in the webinar series devoted to analytical tools initiated in…
- News 6 June 2016 New funding to help cities world-wide implement efficient district energy The Bitten and Mads Clausen Foundation, which owns the Danfoss Group, today announced DKK 9 million in new funding to support UN’s District Energy in Cities initiative under the Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) Partnership and its Global Energy Efficiency Accelerator Platform. The new funds, spread over three years, will create a team of deployable district energy experts to support UNEP’s District Energy in Cities initiative in scaling-up, retrofitting and developing district energy…
- News 27 May 2016 Bloomberg saves USD 2.2 million annually with a new LEED Gold Data Centre By expanding demand reduction strategies and infrastructure investments, Bloomberg, the international financial software, data and media company, has committed to achieving 50 percent energy efficiency improvement by 2020 as compared to its 2007 baseline. One of the biggest challenges to achieving this goal will be reducing energy consumption at the company’s data centres. Possible energy saving measures under consideration include IT equipment upgrades, equipment organisation and air…
- News 26 May 2016 SE4All - Helping us all go further, faster The Paris agreement, according to Rachel Kyte, CEO of SE4All, increases the stakes for Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG 7): Affordable and Clean Energy. ‘What Paris did to the SDG,’ she explained during a briefing at the United Nations headquarters in New York last March, ‘is make it even more urgent that we get going on an energy transition that delivers sustainable energy to those who don’t have it sooner rather than later.’ The one-hour question and answer session, which took place before…
- News 26 May 2016 World Bank and ADB provide loans for energy efficiency in India In 2015, India pledged to reduce the energy intensity of its economy by 33 to 35 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. The Indian government has also found that increased energy efficiency is critical to containing energy demand without jeopardising the country’s growth. Now India's ambitious initiatives have won significant funding support from two major SE4All partners: the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank (ADB). In February, ADB approved a 115 million loan to support replacing…
- News 25 May 2016 Accelerating Energy Efficiency: From Commitment to Action 2015 was a milestone year for the global transition towards sustainable development. Not only was there a global agreement on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, with its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), but there was also the adoption of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda. The SDG agreement means that for the first time there is a universal goal for energy development, namely the SDG Goal 7, focusing on ensuring access to affordable,…
- News 25 May 2016 C2E2 Knowledge Management System Launched On May 11, SE4All’s new CEO, Rachel Kyte, launched the Copenhagen Centre’s new Knowledge Management System (KMS) at EE Global in Washington DC. This state-of-the-art KMS is a one-stop system for accessing the latest in energy efficiency news, knowledge, publications, databases and tools from around the world. Accessible and user-friendly, the KMS provides targeted information for energy efficiency policy makers and practitioners. Through the platform, users can contribute news, knowledge and…