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- News 5 March 2020 Historic bundling in Argentinian municipalities UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre is starting to see the fruits of its collaboration agreement with the Argentinean Network of Municipalities Against Climate Change (RAMCC). Members of RAMCC have entered into a historical agreement to jointly purchase LED luminaires to replace conventional street lighting bulbs. Thirty-two municipalities have bundled their sustainability and climate action investments in, and created a trust fund that currently holds 12 million Argentinian Pesos,…
- News 5 March 2020 Historic bundling in Argentinian municipalities The Copenhagen Centre on Energy Efficiency is starting to see the fruits of its collaboration agreement with the Argentinean Network of Municipalities Against Climate Change (RAMCC). Members of RAMCC have entered into a historical agreement to jointly purchase LED luminaires to replace conventional street lighting bulbs. Thirty-two municipalities have bundled their sustainability and climate action investments in, and created a trust fund that currently holds 12 million…
- News 20 February 2020 High-Level Climate Champions to Drive Action at Africa Climate Week in Kampala Nigel Topping and Gonzalo Muñoz - High-Level Champions for Climate Action of the COP26 and COP25 Presidencies respectively - are joining Africa Climate Week April 20-24 in Kampala, Uganda. At the first of four Regional Climate Weeks to take place in 2020, the Climate Champions will support participants in forging the partnerships necessary to accelerate implementation of the Paris Agreement on the ground. Nigel Topping, who was recently appointed by the UK Government for the upcoming conference…
- Project 20 February 2020 SOLUTIONSplus SOLUTIONSplus brings together highly committed cities, industry, research, implementing organisations and finance partners and establishes a global platform for shared, public and commercial e-mobility solutions to kick start the transition towards low-carbon urban mobility. Focus is on promoting electric vehicles within cities. The project encompasses city level demonstrations to test different types of innovative and integrated e-mobility solutions, complemented by a comprehensive toolbox,…
- News 9 December 2019 Local partner named Climate Community Champion Climate Community Champion. This title can now be added to a network of more than 160 municipalities in Argentina working to limit the effects of climate change with the help of UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre. Red Argentina de Municipios frente al Cambio Climatico (RAMCC), was presented with the award during the COP 25 negotiations in Madrid as part of the first ever Green Climate Fund (GCF) Green Champions Awards ceremony. The award recognized RAMCC's coordination and promotion of local public…
- Event 5 December 2019 BEHAVE 2020-2021 - 6th European Conference on Behaviour and Energy Efficiency Notification: To access all the functionalities needed for the Conference, please download the latest Zoom version here. Main Objectives and targeted audience To foster political support to integrate behavioural insights in energy efficiency policy making and programme designing; To facilitate the exchange of innovative ideas, field experiences, and scientific studies among researchers, practitioners, and government officials regarding the application of behavioural insights for accelerating…
- Podcast 29 November 2019 Geographic Information System (GIS) applications for scaling up energy efficiency Problem: Geographic Information Systems or Geographic Information Science (GIS) has the potential to be more and more used in energy planning processes. From studies on energy access to grid analytics, researchers and practitioners in the field of sustainable energy have started to recognise to potential of this system. Nevertheless, energy efficiency studies and applications are not as present and, consequently, GIS remains still an abstract concept. However, the deployment of GIS for energy…
- News 26 November 2019 Annual 7% decrease in emissions needed for next decade Global greenhouse gas emissions should fall over 7 per cent each year from 2020 to 2030 to get on track to limit temperature rise to 1.5°C and minimize climate disruption to lives, the planet and economies, the new Emissions Gap Report says today. The Emissions Gap Report, launched today, shows that collective ambition must increase more than fivefold over current levels to deliver the cuts, needed to hit the most-ambitious temperature goal of the Paris Agreement. Each year, the UN Environment…