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- Publication 10 January 2023 Mitigation in the AFOLU sector: A compendium for national policymakers The compendium informs policymakers and technical experts at national and subnational levels involved with the UNFCCC process about the opportunities for and challenges related to climate change mitigation in the agriculture, forestry and other land uses (AFOLU) sector.
- News 4 January 2023 Swissesco joins the Global ESCO Network The Global ESCO Network is happy to welcome the Swiss ESCO association, Swissesco, as the newest partner in the Network. Swissesco gathers ESCO companies, energy advisory service providers, investors and scientific institutions active in the field of energy performance contracting. Swissesco works actively for the promotion of the ESCO business model through advocacy of energy performance contracting and the creation of framework conditions for the development of the Swiss ESCO market. It…
- Event 22 December 2022 Loss and damage: taking stock and identifying areas for support Implicitly or explicitly, the notion of climate change-driven losses and damages has been present in intergovernmental climate change negotiations since they started about thirty years ago. Scholarship on loss and damage is more recent, with research interest on the topic accelerating at around the time the Paris Agreement was adopted. The objective of this workshop was to take stock of what we have learned about loss and damage thus far, with a view to identifying priority areas for…
- News 21 December 2022 Yemen and Somalia moving towards a climate technology win-win Yemen and Somalia are working to make climate action a win-win, tackling the impacts of both conflicts and climate crisis, while also addressing some of the underlying causes of both. Despite significant challenges, both countries are pushing for meaningful climate action addressing the most urgent vulnerabilities and some of the causes of unrest, while paving the way for more climate friendly development and growth. Yemen and Somalia are both considered some of the most vulnerable when it…
- Publication 20 December 2022 Transformational Change - Guidance for Technology Needs Assessment Transformational technology cooperation aims to promote systemic, multi-level change for a sustainability transition aligned with the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda global goals. Support to developing countries through Technology Needs Assessments (TNAs), including Technology Action Plans (TAPs), has been provided by the UNFCCC and has played a key role in the identification of climate-related technologies that are responsive to countries’ mitigation and adaptation technologies since 2010,…
- Publication 15 December 2022 Energy–Climate–Economy–Population Nexus: An Empirical Analysis in Kenya, Senegal, and Eswatini Motivated by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and its impact by 2030, this study examines the relationship between energy consumption (SDG 7), climate (SDG 13), economic growth and population in Kenya, Senegal and Eswatini. We employ a Kernel Regularized Least Squares (KRLS) machine learning technique and econometric methods such as Dynamic Ordinary Least Squares (DOLS), Fully Modified Ordinary Least Squares (FMOLS) regression, the Mean-Group (MG) and Pooled Mean-Group (PMG) estimation…
- Publication 15 December 2022 The dark side of the sun: solar e-waste and environmental upgrading in the off-grid solar PV value chain The expected increase in the disposal of off-grid solar e-waste (SEW) in the Global South is potentially the dark side of a promising innovation. We suggest placing research aimed at identifying appropriate schemes for the collection and recycling of SEW within a conceptual framework that builds on the literature on environmental upgrading in global value chains (GVC). We advance the GVC literature by incorporating complementary insights from social anthropology and life-cycle assessments,…
- Publication 15 December 2022 Collective Action and Social Innovation in the Energy Sector: A Mobilization Model Perspective This conceptual paper applies a mobilization model to Collective Action Initiatives (CAIs) in the energy sector. The goal is to synthesize aspects of sustainable transition theories with social movement theory to gain insights into how CAIs mobilize to bring about niche-regime change in the context of the sustainable energy transition. First, we demonstrate how energy communities, as a representation of CAIs, relate to social innovation. We then discuss how CAIs in the energy sector are…