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- News 27 April 2015 ACAD Takes A Look Back at Five Years of Carbon Finance After five fruitful years, the African Carbon Asset Development facility (ACAD) has wrapped up operations, and UNEP-DTU is evaluating the program’s achievements and lessons learnt. ACAD’s goal was to catalyze the growth of the African carbon market, a goal that proved to be quite a challenge, given the collapse of the global carbon market just after the end of the programme’s first phase. Yet through targeted financial and technical support, ACAD succeeded in providing essential tools that can…
- News 24 April 2015 High level Ministerial dialogue at ACF 2015 Marrakech, Morocco, 15 April 2015 - The high level ministerial dialogue of the Seventh African Carbon Forum was convened, under the high patronage of His Majesty King Mohammed VI, in Marrakesh, Morocco on 15 April 2015. The dialogue was chaired by the H.E. Ms. Hakima El Haite, Delegate Minister in charge of the Environment of Morocco. H.E. Hakima El Haite, Mr. Richard Kinley, the Deputy Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC) and Ambassador Stephane…
- News 17 April 2015 ACF 2015- Private and Public sectors join in quest for market and finance opportunities Marrakech, Morocco, 15 April 2015 – Ministers from governments across Africa have renewed their call for a strong and universal climate change agreement with increased flows of funds, including through market and finance opportunities, sufficient to fulfill Africa’s development aspirations. With countries set to approve a new climate change agreement under the UN in Paris in December, African ministers stressed the region’s readiness and requirement for accelerated private and public financing…
- News 16 March 2015 Modernizing District Energy Systems Could Reduce Primary Energy Consumption by up to 50% A transition to modern district energy systems could contribute to 60 per cent of required energy sector emissions reductions by 2050, and reduce primary energy consumption by up to 50 per cent, according to a new report launched by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in collaboration with the Copenhagen Centre on Energy Efficiency (C2E2), ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability, and UN-Habitat. With cities accounting for 70 per cent of global energy use and for 40-50 per cent…
- News 6 March 2015 Adaptation Gap Report to be presented at Global Adaptation Network Forum, 2015 The first Global Adaptation Network (GAN) Forum is being held in Panama City on 6-7 March to bring together participants from various Adaptation Knowledge Networks, government officials and experts working in the field of Climate Change Adaptation. The Forum seeks to provide an opportunity for dialogue and learning between adaptation actors and networks inter-regionally and globally. On the first day of the event, Anne Olhoff from UNEP DTU Partnership will present UNEP’s Global Adaptation Gap…
- News 4 March 2015 New GNESD Publication on Energy Access in Urban Poor Communities released A new publication 'Energy access realities in urban poor communities of developing countries assessments and recommendations' has been released by the GNESD network as a result of its Urban Peri Urban Energy Access (UPEA) Phase III work. The study comes at a time when more than half of the world’s population lives in urban areas and while about 75% of the world’s consumption of commercial energy contributes to urban areas, many of those in direst need of access to modern energy systems are…
- News 27 February 2015 Modernizing District Energy Systems Could Reduce Primary Energy Consumption by up to 50% Nairobi, 25 February 2015 – A transition to modern district energy systems could contribute to 60 per cent of required energy sector emissions reductions by 2050, and reduce primary energy consumption by up to 50 per cent, according to a new report launched today by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in collaboration with the Copenhagen Centre on Energy Efficiency (C2E2), ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability, and UN-Habitat. With cities accounting for 70 per cent of…
- News 23 February 2015 Follow-up to AREED I and II initiated at planning meeting Copenhagen, 19-20 February - UDP hosted a meeting over two days at the UN City with the 5 African partners of the AREED programme together with a representative of UNEP DTIE, to discuss and agree on the structure and modalities for the next phase of the UNEP programme, AREED III. Overcoming barriers to clean and sustainable energy supplies in five countries of Western and Southern Africa, UNEP's African Energy Enterprise Development (AREED) Programme has been working to meet the energy needs of…