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- News 1 November 2019 High Tech Summit: The future of green energy and data This week, UNEP DTU Partnership joined the DTU High Tech Summit highlighting the needs and possibilities for green solutions within the energy and datacentre sectors. The DTU High Tech Summit is part conference and part exhibition with a vision to create the largest research-based meeting place in Denmark within the field of digitization. The summit aims to create the perfect environment for companies, start-ups, organisations and universities to meet and present their latest technological…
- News 1 November 2019 High Tech Summit: The future of green energy and data This week, UNEP DTU Partnership joined the DTU High Tech Summit highlighting the needs and possibilities for green solutions within the energy and datacentre sectors. The DTU High Tech Summit is part conference and part exhibition with a vision to create the largest research-based meeting place in Denmark within the field of digitization. The summit aims to create the perfect environment for companies, start-ups, organisations and universities to meet and present their latest technological…
- News 25 October 2019 UNEP DTU expert discusses sustainable building design with architecture students UN City and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation (KADK) hosted their annual conference on Friday 25 October at the UN City in Copenhagen. Students of the architecture school met to discuss how architects, designers and conservators can contribute to the 2030 agenda and implement the SDG’s within these industries. 130 students and staff from KADK participated in six different workshops moderated by KADK and UN representatives. Each session…
- Project 23 October 2019 Increased transparency and documentation of private sector contributions to NDCs In order to achieve the Paris Agreement goal of holding the increase in global mean temperature at well below 2 °C, relative to pre-industrial levels, and pursue efforts to limit warming to 1.5 °C, every single effort resulting in GHG emission reduction or contribution to SDGs should be measured/monitored and reported. While a number of efforts will take place at national level, led mainly by the government, a number of emission reduction activities take place currently at micro or small scale…
- Event 22 October 2019 Powering Digital Transformation through Sustainable Datacentres Meet us at the High Tech Summit 2019 where UNEP DTU is hosting a track on Powering Digital Transformation through Sustainable Datacentres. Datacenters have an important role to play in digital transformation. Today’s datacenters have the potential to become a dynamic change agent within smart urban systems. The growth of inefficient datacentre brings irreversible economic and environmental ramifications to the society. Currently, the world's datacentres consumed 3% of global electricity with a…
- Podcast 17 October 2019 Battle for the thermostat: energy efficiency and gender Problem: There is a significant difference in perception of indoor thermal comfort between men and women, with men demonstrating a strong preference lower temperatures than women, sometimes referred to as the ‘battle of the thermostat’. Research discussed in this episode shows that there is also a notable impact on productivity and cognitive performance, with women performing better at high temperatures than at low temperatures. At the same time in most modern office space, the settings for the…
- News 15 October 2019 Latin America Business Forum - District Heating Development in Chile The head of strategy at Copenhagen Centre on Energy Efficiency Gabriela Dias, participated in the "District Heating Development in Chile" seminar, organized by the Latin American Business Forum and her presentation was about the "Overview UNEP-DES initiative in Latin America". [iframe src="https://www.linkedin.com/embed/feed/update/urn:li:ugcPost:6589167752643129344" height="532" width="504" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" title="Embedded post"] Find Out More
- Event 8 October 2019 Powering Digital Transformation through Sustainable Datacentres - Organized by UNEP DTU Partnership Datacenters have an important role to play in digital transformation. Today’s datacenters have the potential to become a dynamic change agent within smart urban systems. The growth of inefficient datacentre brings irreversible economic and environmental ramifications to the society. Currently, the world's datacentres consumed 3% of global electricity with a growth project to 20% by 2025. These power hungry datacentres now are responsible for 2% of global CO2 emissions, a similar share of the…