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- News 27 October 2014 Second NAMAcademy course held in Denmark The NAMAcademy successfully held the second classroom course on NAMAs last week. The week long residential course was designed to succeed the online course on NAMAs for participants who wished to attend a classroom based lecture series and get an opportunity to directly learn and interact with NAMA experts. The course offered sessions on several aspects of NAMAs, from Monitoring, Reporting and Verification of NAMAs, the NINO template design, barriers to NAMA projects to the…
- News 22 October 2014 UDP facilitates ESMAP meeting at UN City On Wednesday, 21 October, the World Bank’s ESMAP programme organized a day-long conference on Variable Renewable Energy (VRE), in collaboration with UNEP DTU Partnership and DANIDA at the UN City. The conference titled Integrating Variable Renewable Energy into Power Grids was aimed at helping countries that are interested in scaling up grid-connected VRE by facilitating a knowledge exchange on how such a scale up can be achieved while meeting the criteria for reliability and affordability. The…
- News 8 October 2014 Three new NAMA publications launched September saw the release of three new NAMA publications by UNEP DTU Partnership. Financing Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions: A primer on the financial engineering of NAMAs explains essential financing principles and models. It highlights challenges in financing NAMA policies and programmes, as well as possible ways to overcome these obstacles. Authored by Søren E. Lutken, the publication argues that NAMAs should not be designed as a theoretical exercise, considering financing issues…
- News 24 September 2014 UNEP initiatives on display at UN Headquarters During the UN Climate Summit 2014 on 23 September at the UN Headquarters in New York, The Momentum for Change initiative launched by the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat in collaboration with UNEP emphasising the use of renewable energy and a focus on energy efficiency to realize a low carbon future was at full display at the UN HQ fence. Below are a few photos.
- News 22 September 2014 SE4All to feature at the UN Climate Summit 2014 Sustainable Energy for All will feature at the UN Climate Summit 2014 and will launch the Global Energy Efficiency Accelerator Platform. On Monday, 22 September, the day before the Summit, a special event will be held on ‘Implementing Sustainable Energy for All’. The session, from 9:00 to 13:30 in the Dag Hammarskjold Auditorium, will include high-level multi-stakeholder panels on financing SE4ALL, investing in energy efficiency, accelerating innovation in renewable energy, and…
- News 11 September 2014 GNESD launches new publication on mini-grids in India The development of mini-grids based on renewable energy sources such as solar PV, biogas and small hydro has been a successful venture in India. The new report from the GNESD project, Renewable energy-based rural electrification: The mini-grid experience from India, authoured by Debajit Palit and Gopal K Sarangi, provides a review of this experience of mini-grid use in India by making specific references to successful cases. While the predominant form of electrification in…
- News 28 August 2014 Promoting Low Carbon Transport in India - Three new publications launched Three new publications from the 'Promoting Low Carbon Transport in India' project were launched this month. The first 'Case Study of Metro Rail in Indian Cities' examines the costs and benefits of metro rail projects for achieving the twin goals of inclusive and sustainable development and low-carbon growth. While energy efficiency gains associated with metro rail projects are known to policymakers in India, the implication of other costs and benefits based on life cycle…
- News 1 August 2014 UDP organises seminar on Sustainable Energy Investments in Africa UNEP DTU Partnership organised and hosted a seminar entitled 'Opportunity Africa: Sustainable Energy Investments in Africa - Engaging the Private Sector' on 24-25 June 2014 at UN City, on behalf of the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the African Development Bank. The seminar aimed to bring together a broad group of relevant actors with a common specific interest in sustainable energy activities in Africa. The event was organised owing to the collaboration between Danish Development…