• Webinar & E-Learning 20 November 2024 Enhancing Energy Efficiency in Data Centres: Key Strategies and Innovations (Webinar) - 18.11.2024 This webinar explores the crucial role of energy efficiency in the rapidly expanding data centre industry. With the increasing demand for data services, the need to improve the energy efficiency of data centres has never been more critical. The session covers innovations in cooling technologies and sustainable practices to reduce the environmental impact of these facilities. Expert speakers from the International Energy Agency (IEA), United for Efficiency (U4E), and the European Commission…
• News 13 November 2024 Academia as an Important Stakeholder in Pakistan’s Carbon Market The integral role that academia can play in the implementation of carbon markets in Pakistan was discussed during the National Meeting of the Community of Practice for Article 6 Implementing Countries (COP-ASIC) on 1st November at Ramada Hotel, Islamabad. Article 6 of the Paris Agreement 2015 is designed to enable countries to cooperate with each other to achieve ambitious mitigation targets through market-based approaches. This includes the use of carbon trading. Under Article 6, a country can…
• Event 11 November 2024 Enhancing Energy Efficiency in Data Centrers: Key Strategies and Innovations (Webinar) This webinar will explore the crucial role of energy efficiency in the rapidly expanding data centre industry. With the increasing demand for data services, the need to improve the energy efficiency of data centres has never been more critical. The session will cover innovations in cooling technologies and sustainable practices to reduce the environmental impact of these facilities. Expert speakers from the International Energy Agency (IEA), United for Efficiency (U4E), and the European…
• News 10 November 2024 Ugandan banana farmers gain first-ever insurance to tackle climate impacts It was supposed to rain. James had bought the coffee husks and spread them under his new banana plants for fertilizer, expecting the rain to come in mid-August as it usually does. But it didn’t rain. James Mugume in front of his banana plantation James Mugume and his family are banana farmers with a plantation located about an hour from Bushyeni in Southwest Uganda, a country known as Africa’s breadbasket because of its fertile soil. In his 48 years, he has never experienced a dry…
• News 7 November 2024 Huge uplift needed on climate adaptation, starting with finance commitment at COP29 As climate impacts intensify and hit the world’s most vulnerable hardest, the Adaptation Gap Report 2024: Come hell and high water, from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), finds that nations must dramatically increase climate adaptation efforts, starting with a commitment to act on finance at COP29. The Adaptation Gap Report is co-produced and co-edited  by the UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre. Global average temperature rise is approaching 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, and…
• News 24 October 2024 Nations must close huge emissions gap in new climate pledges and deliver immediate action, or 1.5°C lost Nations must collectively commit to cut 42 per cent off annual greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and 57 per cent by 2035 in the next round of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) – and back this up with rapid action – or the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C goal will be gone within a few years, according to a new UN Environment Programme (UNEP) report. Updated NDCs are to be submitted early next year ahead of the COP30 climate talks in Brazil. UNEP’s Emissions Gap Report 2024: No more hot air ……
• News 15 October 2024 Strengthening Local Capacities for Equitable Energy Transition in Indonesia’s Provinces During two recent missions to Indonesia covering Jakarta and South Sulawesi, experts from UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre along with our local partner Dala Institute met with key stakeholders to discuss the energy transition process underway and more importantly the role of provinces in energy planning and implementation. This is particularly crucial as Indonesia is embarking on simultaneous transitions along a low-carbon energy pathway, and economic development in an equitable way. The extent…
• News 8 October 2024 Boosting Pakistan’s Climate Finance: Government Officials Receive Carbon Market Training As signatories to the Paris Agreement have to fulfill their international pledges in their Nationally Determined Contributions by 2030, it is imperative that all policy and financing instruments and international cooperation opportunities be utilized effectively and timely. Pakistan has set an ambitious target of an overall 50% reduction of its projected emissions by 2030, with a 15% reduction from the country's own resources and another 35% reduction conditional to the provision of…

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