• 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 27 February 2020 Sustainable data centres from a life cycle perspective Data centres have become key in supporting ICT services in modern societies, and with their growing use and importance comes an ever-growing carbon footprint. In the first issue of the new Data Centre brief series, published by UNEP DTU Partnership’s Copenhagen Centre on Energy Efficiency, the question of how we can ensure environmentally sustainable data centres is analysed through the perspective of life cycle assessment. Download the brief here. Encompassing all activities As the role of…
• News 27 February 2020 Sustainable data centres from a life cycle perspective Data centres have become key in supporting ICT services in modern societies, and with their growing use and importance comes an ever-growing carbon footprint. In the first issue of the new Data Centre brief series, published by UNEP DTU Partnership's Copenhagen Centre on Energy Efficiency, the question of how we can ensure environmentally sustainable data centres is analysed through the perspective of life cycle assessment. Download the brief here. Encompassing all activities As the role of…
• News 21 February 2020 Clean cooking technology for refugees developed with DTU Skylab and UNHCR A new innovative clean cooking technology, creating heat from a salt-based thermochemical battery, charged by solar power, has been developed at DTU, and UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre is part of making sure it gets to those in greatest need. In 2019, ServedOnSalt approached UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre for inputs to their business idea of storing solar-generated heat in salt-based sustainable stoves. In collaboration, ServedOnSalt and UNEP DTU Partnership won a £26,000 grant from the UK…
• Podcast 6 February 2020 Embodied carbon in construction materials - the new concern for architects Problem: Production of the currently preferred construction materials for the building industry is one of the largest sources of carbon emissions globally Key message: As buildings become increasingly energy efficient in most parts of the world, the production of the construction materials mostly used - concrete, steel and glass - become the buildings' most severe climate impact. To reduce this climate impact a rethink of the materials that go into construction is necessary.
• News 23 January 2020 New conference for climate positive data centers EDIT: Due to the Corona-virus, the conference has been moved to the 29th of September. 2019 has been a pivotal year for climate change awareness, where corporate organizations are now racing not only to join the fight against climate change, but also to avoid shrinking profits or funding restrictions as consumers and investors alike demand green-friendly sustainable businesses. Building on this movement UNEP DTU Partnership and the Danish Data Center Industry are inviting stakeholders and…
• Project 23 January 2020 Community Models for the Energy Transition through Social Innovation (COMETS) COMETS aims to fill the knowledge and participatory gaps surrounding the low carbon energy system transition to ensure citizens are at the center of the transformation and empower their creative potential. COMETS will advance the scientific knowledge on the motives, potential, objectives and barriers of socially innovative Collective Action Initiatives (CAIs) and their historical and future role in the energy transition. This will be achieved by quantifying the European-wide aggregate…

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