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- News 2 July 2018 Energy Efficiency Investment at the Municipal Level - Time to Think Bigger By Mark Lister, Copenhagen Centre on Energy Efficiency. Global targets for emissions reductions set forth in the Paris Climate Agreement have put energy efficiency high on the political, industrial and social agenda. Energy efficiency at a global level is an essential response to climate change and fundamental to achieving the goals of the 2015 Paris climate agreement. But energy efficiency is not only about saving our climate. Multiple benefits arise from energy efficiency actions, including…
- News 27 June 2018 UNEP DTU part of Global Plan of Action for humanitarian sustainable energy More than 130 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance due to conflict, natural disasters, and other complex global challenges around the world. For many of these people, access to energy sources is critical for survival, and how they access it impacts their health, livelihoods, safety, and well-being. Despite this, energy access for displaced people is not prioritized in the global humanitarian system. Current energy practices in situations of displacement are often inefficient,…
- Webinar & E-Learning 22 June 2018 Finance solutions for energy efficiency at the municipal level (Webinar) - 05.07.2018 This webinar offers an overview and help navigate in various funding sources for energy efficiency upgrades in the public infrastructure at the municipal level. The first part of the webinar covers the EU funding programmes, institutions and available technical assistance as well as potential national public sources. The second part focuses on the specific programme – the City Finance Lab - Europe’s first dedicated platform to help develop innovative finance solutions for green urban projects…
- News 18 June 2018 Adaptation Futures: The role of SME's in climate resilience All of this week stakeholders from more than 600 organisation will come together in Cape Town for the 5th international Adaptation Futures conference. During the conference UNEP DTU Partnership will host a session focusing on how smaller businesses can be part of both climate adaptation and development action on June 21. This is the first time the conference is held on the African continent. The aim is to use this setting to put in the foreground developing country adaptation issues and…
- News 13 June 2018 UNEP DTU joins the people's meeting on Bornholm Each year Danish ngo's, politicians, media and a lot of major companies spend an extended weekend on the beautiful sunny island of Bornholm along with around 100.000 interested visitors. Since its debut in 2011, Folkemødet, or in English, peoples meeting, have become the main political happening of the year with more than 3000 events. Like previous years, UNEP DTU Partnership is participating in the peoples meeting to draw attention to the importance of climate action and development. This year…
- News 11 June 2018 All you need to know about NDCs now fits in your pocket [EDIT] A new version of this pocket guide has been published here. Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) are key to saving our climate. As a crucial part of the global climate negotiations, they are also complicated documents caught in the crossfire between policy, science, finance and necessity. To make information on the NDCs and all their complicated processes and issues more accessible and easy to understand, UNEP DTU Partnership has produced a Pocket Guide to NDCs, under the European…
- Tools 8 June 2018 The H2020 EmBuild project launches the Navigator, a practical guidance for the formulation and implementation of an effective renovation strategy for buildings The H2020 project EmBuild - standing for Empower public authorities to establish a long-term strategy for mobilizing investment in the energy efficient renovation of the building stock - worked directly with public authorities in towns and regions in Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia and Germany, to generate new tools, better processes and enable higher capacity in local governments to design ambitious but realistic renovation strategies. Some of these efforts resulted in the…
- News 24 May 2018 Highlights from EE Global - Day 2 Highlights from the second day of EE Global, which gathered hundreds of high-level energy efficiency leaders at the Odd Fellow Palace in Copenhagen for a day of learning, networking and inspiring conversations on energy efficiency. Day Two of EE Global started with a call to action from Alliance President Jason Hartke, conveying the message to the audience gathered at Copenhagen’s elegant Odd Fellow Palace that “energy efficiency is the answer and the opportunity” for addressing carbon…