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- Webinar & E-Learning 3 May 2017 Options for Incentivizing Voluntary, Above-code Construction (Webinar) - 10.05.2017 This BEA webinar, open to BEA cities and partners, as well as the general public aims to help cities identify incentive types that may work to spur above-code development in their local context. Building on the first webinar from this working group that featured the ‘what and why’ of above-code construction, this webinar looks in greater detail at different policy options intended to stimulate green building in the private sector, and in some cases, the public sector…
- Webinar & E-Learning 28 April 2017 Standards to Achieve City Sustainability (Webinar) - 26/27.04.2017 This BEA webinar engages participants on how to use tools and standards to improve city sustainability. Participants learn about how to create a greenhouse gas inventory to benchmark and track city emissions reductions with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol for Cities, how to estimate the potential emissions from city projects and policies with the GHG Protocol Policy and Action Standard, and how to set ambitious targets for cities with the Mitigation Goal Standard. The webinar…
- Webinar & E-Learning 26 April 2017 BEA City Training Webinar: Using the BEA Tracking Progress Template (Webinar) - 25.04.2017 This BEA webinar aims to help cities select localized indicators to track their progress and set clear goals for what they will achieve, with emphasis on activities until September 2017, the end of current BEA phase. Cities are learning how to use the BEA Tracking Progress Template and have a chance to ask questions about how to apply this tool to their local BEA policy and project activities and to fulfill their tracking progress commitment to the …
- Webinar & E-Learning 18 April 2017 Introduction to EDGE Voluntary Certification and Discussion of Municipal Incentive Options (Webinar) - 19.04.2017 A city can reduce its utility bills and its carbon footprint through better design of not just the buildings it owns but also all buildings that lie within its jurisdiction. This webinar is introducing participants to EDGE, a quick, simple, low-cost online certification system that has certified over one million square meters to date, from high-end hotels and offices to budget retail and low-income housing projects. This accessible certification can in turn facilitate a wide range of fiscal…
- Webinar & E-Learning 10 April 2017 Energy Efficiency Actions in Denmark-Copenhagen-Nordhavn (Webinar) - 07.04.2017 The Copenhagen Centre on Energy Efficiency is hosting a no-cost webinar series ‘Think globally, act locally’ in order to show how energy efficiency policies and actions are linked together at the global, national and local levels of decision-making and how potentially local actions can drive policy and market transformation at the higher levels of governance. Each webinar will start with the global level discussion on the trends and development in the field of energy efficiency followed by the…
- Webinar & E-Learning 13 March 2017 Creation of energy-efficient Buildings Renovation Action Plans for cities: guideline and application cases (Webinar) - 14.03.2017 In the last decade, the integration of Renewable Energy Sources in buildings and smart combination of technologies have been identified as key elements for renovations plans which pursue the horizon of Nearly Zero Energy Buildings. In this context, this webinar is focused in a methodology for elaboration of national roadmaps for energy-efficient buildings renovation where the most relevant stakeholders, barriers and potentials would be identified. As example, this methodology will be applied to…
- Webinar & E-Learning 24 November 2016 Tools for Building Energy Efficiency: Resources for Policy and Project Progress Tracking (Webinar) - 01.12.2016 This no-cost, webinar focuses on available analytical tools that can help cities, sub-national governments and local stakeholders in accelerating energy efficiency actions in the building sector. The webinar is hosted by the Copenhagen Centre on Energy Efficiency (C2E2) in collaboration with the World Resources Institute (WRI), under the umbrella of the Sustainable Energy for All Global Energy Efficiency Accelerator Platform. This is the fourth event in the webinar series devoted to…
- Webinar & E-Learning 11 November 2016 Lessons from 18 months of BEA engagement in Mexico City (Webinar) - 19.10.2016 This BEA partnership webinar describes the process of BEA engagement in Mexico City from March 2015 to now. Mexico City has put in place first-of-their-kind construction regulations that incorporate energy performance as their BEA policy, and will audit and retrofit several public sector buildings as their BEA project. It will provide perspectives from Mexico City, the private sector, and the lead local partner in this engagement. Speakers will reflect on what has been achieved so far, what…