• News 11 July 2019 Latin America & Caribbean Climate Week Set to Boost Climate Ambition Amidst growing calls for stronger and faster climate action, the upcoming Latin America and Caribbean Climate Week 2019 (LACCW) is set to boost the region’s response to the current climate emergency. The event takes place in Salvador, Brazil form the 19th to the 23rd of August. Leadership at the highest level is urgently needed to close the ambition gap of current national climate plans in order to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement of limiting global average temperature rise to 1.5 degrees…
• News 26 June 2019 Linkages between Technology Needs Assessments and Nationally Determined Contributions at UN Climate Conference During the UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn, SB50, June 2019, UNEP DTU Partnership together with the UNFCCC Secretariat, organized a side event to enhance understanding of the synergies between the TNAs and the NDCs, to highlight countries’ experiences, and to learn about funding opportunities for countries when conducting their TNAs. To achieve the objectives of the Paris Agreement, implementation of climate technologies is necessary on a large scale and in short time. Climate technologies…
• News 18 June 2019 UNEP DTU Partnership hosts new network, unleashing the ESCO potential Last week saw the launch of the new 'Global ESCO Network' at the G20 meeting in Tokyo. A network that aims to unleash the potential that Energy Service Companies (ESCOs) have to deliver some of the best returns on green investments, reduce energy consumption and combat excess greenhouse gas emissions. The ESCO concept of using energy savings to pay for the cost of equipment and infrastructure that creates those savings is a business model directly responding to climate change. ESCOs thus…
• News 18 June 2019 UNEP DTU Partnership hosts new network, unleashing the ESCO potential Last week saw the launch of the new ‘Global ESCO Network’ at the G20 meeting in Tokyo. A network that aims to unleash the potential that Energy Service Companies (ESCOs) have to deliver some of the best returns on green investments, reduce energy consumption and combat excess greenhouse gas emissions. The ESCO concept of using energy savings to pay for the cost of equipment and infrastructure that creates those savings is a business model directly responding to climate change. ESCOs thus…
• Event 12 June 2019 Linkages between Technology Needs Assessments and Nationally Determined Contributions Speakers: NDC Partnership, TEC, NDC Dialogue representatives, UNEP DTU Partnership, GCF, GEF, TNA national coordinators, Parties, other stakeholders To achieve the objectives of the Paris Agreement, implementation of climate technologies is necessary on a large scale and in short time. Climate technologies are successfully operating and well proven in many countries. However, climate technologies are only moderately implemented in many developing countries. Under the Paris Agreement, Parties to…
• Event 28 May 2019 Cooling your home: How to connect residential buildings to district cooling? (Webinar) Demand for space cooling is set to rise to 30% of buildings’ electricity demand by 2050 with nearly 70% of the increase coming from the residential sector (IEA, The Future of Cooling, 2018). In both developed and developing countries, such cooling demand will bring numerous benefits to the economy and our health, but will have profound impacts on the environment and power system unless we shift from business-as-usual technologies. Governments around the world are turning to district cooling to…
• Webinar & E-Learning 23 May 2019 Cooling your home: How to connect residential buildings to district cooling? (Webinar) - 29.05.2019 Demand for space cooling is set to rise to 30% of buildings’ electricity demand by 2050 with nearly 70% of the increase coming from the residential sector (IEA, The Future of Cooling, 2018). In both developed and developing countries, such cooling demand will bring numerous benefits to the economy and our health, but will have profound impacts on the environment and power system unless we shift from business-as-usual technologies. Governments around the world are turning to district cooling to…
• News 10 May 2019 Data Center Conference to focus on IT sustainability The data center industry is facing significant energy challenges as demand for data is escalating worldwide, while the severity of climate change and urgency of climate action is increasing. Denmark, being at the forefront of cleantech innovation and renewable energy, is the host for a sustainability call to action event on 15th May 2019 at the UN City in Copenhagen. “Currently, the world’s data centres consumes about 3% of global electricity, and by 2025 up to 20% of all electricity in the…

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