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- News 28 February 2022 NEW IPCC report: Taking action now can secure our future Human-induced climate change is causing dangerous and widespread disruption in nature and affecting the lives of billions of people around the world, despite efforts to reduce the risks. People and ecosystems least able to cope are being hardest hit, said scientists in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, released today. “This report is a dire warning about the consequences of inaction,” said Hoesung Lee, Chair of the IPCC. “It shows that climate change is a grave…
- News 22 February 2022 Argentinian municipalities bundles new EV investments In March, the Trust Fund of the Argentine Network of Municipalities against Climate Change (RAMCC) will start the process of buying new electric vehicles. The tender for the new electric vehicles is one of the many results emerging from bundling investments in energy efficiency at the local level through the RAMCC Trust. Previously, municipalities in RAMCC have been successful in procuring LED street lighting at favourable costs through the trust fund and have also started procuring solar…
- News 14 February 2022 Call for Expressions of Interest - Training Delivery and Capacity Building Following the launch of its new IPMVP® M&V certification programs, Efficiency Valuation Organization (EVO) is seeking expressions of interest from potential training and certification partners. EVO is an international NGO that owns the globally recognized International Performance Measurement and Verification Protocol (IPMVP). Through a network of national, regional, and international training partners and organizers, EVO has introduced energy efficiency measurement and…
- News 26 December 2021 New research article: in rural electrification, affordability is key The UN sustainable development goals (SDGs), approved six years ago, lay out a shared vision on 17 key developmental concerns. Within this framework, SDG7 targets access to affordable, reliable and modern energy services, while SDG13 focuses on reducing greenhouse-gas emissions and adaption to the impacts of climate change. Efforts to achieve SDG7 and SDG13 are interlinked, in that fossil fuels will be used, to a greater or lesser extent, to expand access to modern energy services in developing…
- News 22 December 2021 A look back at 2021 2021 is coming to an end, and on behalf of all my colleagues, I would like to thank our partners around the world for all your efforts and collaboration in the last year. Together we have worked hard throughout the year for a greener, more sustainable future, where countries prosper using low carbon energy sources in the most efficient way. Taking over as Director in April 2021, I was proud to join such a relevant and unique partnership benefitting societies across the world. It is our goal for…
- News 21 December 2021 TNA webinars, events, podcasts and publications in 2021 As 2021 comes to an end, we would like to share an overview of some of the knowledge products produced under the Global Technology Needs Assessment (TNA) project. Through the TNA project, UNEP DTU Partnership helps developing countries determine their technology priorities for mitigating and adapting to climate change. The project follows a country-driven approach, working with regional centers of excellence in climate change mitigation and adaptation, and offering national, regional, and…
- News 20 December 2021 TNA webinars, events, podcasts and publications in 2021 As 2021 comes to an end, we would like to share an overview of some of the knowledge products produced under the Global Technology Needs Assessment (TNA) project. Through the TNA project, UNEP DTU Partnership helps developing countries determine their technology priorities for mitigating and adapting to climate change. The project follows a country-driven approach, working with regional centers of excellence in climate change mitigation and adaptation, and offering national, regional, and…
- Webinar & E-Learning 17 December 2021 How Super ESCOs can bypass regulatory restrictions for contracting private ESCOs (Webinar) – 14.12.2021 So-called Super ESCOs, which are initiated and generally financed by the public sector to serve other public-sector entities, are a growing phenomenon with particular advantages in dealing with other public entities, partly because by their very nature they may escape the restrictions that otherwise pertain to private entities and may be better placed to secure access to the public clients’ cash flows that are to finance the ESCO contracts. But even Super ESCOs may find that the private sector…