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- Event 17 February 2023 Perspectives Launch - Advancing Understanding of Adequacy and Effectiveness of Adaptation in the Context of GST (Webinar) The Paris Agreement establishes the Global Stocktake (GST) to assess the progress made toward its long-term goals. One of the core functions of GST is to review the adequacy and effectiveness of adaptation and the support provided for adaptation. However, a clear and commonly accepted understanding of the concepts of ‘adequacy’ and ‘effectiveness’, as well as a practice for operationalizing them is yet to be established. To address this challenge, the Independent Global Stocktake (iGST)…
- Webinar & E-Learning 13 February 2023 100 Good Practices of Sustainable Energy Actions in Cities – An Overview and Recommendations for Replication (Webinar) - 09.02.2023 Cities are the centres of economic activities and population in all parts of the world. From 2018 to 2021, the Copenhagen Centre on Energy Efficiency (C2E2), in its role as the SEforALL energy efficiency hub, used a standard template to systematically collect good practices of energy efficiency actions in cities and published them in Copenhagen’s Centre Knowledge Management System. The C2E2 team gathered 100 good practices through extensive online searching and desk research, aiming to provide…
- Event 10 February 2023 Super ESCOs ESCOs have been struggling with the adapted financing component of their offer and the challenges that come with the needs of rapid payback from their clients. The Super ESCO scheme, developed a few years ago, has now been demonstrated in different shapes and forms mainly in the Middle East and in North America and may come to the rescue of ESCO market players. The Global ESCO Network’s first webinar in 2023 presents the Super ESCO concept and provides a review of the experience so far from…
- News 8 February 2023 The Hungarian National Association of Enterprise Developers (MVOSZ) joins the Global ESCO Network The Global ESCO Network is happy to welcome MVOSZ as the newest partner in the Network. MVOSZ is Hungary's largest non-profit enterprise development organization and support association. It was founded with the aim of assisting the Hungarian SME sector by increasing the quality of entrepreneur development services, supporting project pipeline development and initiating new projects, and promoting new technologies. Through its Hungarian Energy Efficiency Service Providers' Platform (HUNESCO),…
- News 6 February 2023 Carbon market capacity building A new ‘Integrated Assessment for Article Six’ (IAA6) project meets the needs for support on how to assess, strategize and plan for use of international carbon markets to attract private sector engagement in an integrated way with national carbon pricing and emissions trading schemes. The IAA6 project will ensure, that developing countries have the tools, data and technical capacity to use Article 6 carbon markets strategically for NDC implementation and ambition raising aligned with the long…
- Event 30 January 2023 100 Good Practices of Sustainable Energy Actions in Cities - An Overview and Recommendations for Replication (Webinar) Cities are the centres of economic activities and population in all parts of the world. From 2018 to 2021, the Copenhagen Centre on Energy Efficiency (C2E2), in its role as the SEforALL energy efficiency hub, used a standard template to systematically collect good practices of energy efficiency actions in cities and published them in Copenhagen’s Centre Knowledge Management System. The C2E2 team gathered 100 good practices through extensive online searching and desk research, aiming to provide…
- News 26 January 2023 Institutional frameworks for transparency support climate action in Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic, a small island developing state in the Caribbean, is considered to be vulnerable to the increasing effects of climate change. At the same time, the country has made good progress on integrating climate change into policy. Working on transparency and reporting for climate action, the Dominican Republic has worked with and the Initiative for Climate Action Transparency (ICAT) across multiple projects, where UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre as implementing partner has…
- Podcast 18 January 2023 Informed decision-making on portfolio decarbonisation using GHG accounting and lifecycle analysis Problem: Today’s podcast will explore the application and use of carbon footprint calculations, that is GHG accounting and lifecycle analysis, with Vanja Wylie. In today’s talk, we will discuss, among others, how to GHG accounting can inform decisions on energy efficiency. Key message: Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a systematic, standardised approach to quantifying a product's or system's potential environmental impacts. GHG Accounting is more narrow in its assessment of environmental impacts…