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- News 6 June 2016 New funding to help cities world-wide implement efficient district energy The Bitten and Mads Clausen Foundation, which owns the Danfoss Group, today announced DKK 9 million in new funding to support UN’s District Energy in Cities initiative under the Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) Partnership and its Global Energy Efficiency Accelerator Platform. The new funds, spread over three years, will create a team of deployable district energy experts to support UNEP’s District Energy in Cities initiative in scaling-up, retrofitting and developing district energy…
- News 27 May 2016 Bloomberg saves USD 2.2 million annually with a new LEED Gold Data Centre By expanding demand reduction strategies and infrastructure investments, Bloomberg, the international financial software, data and media company, has committed to achieving 50 percent energy efficiency improvement by 2020 as compared to its 2007 baseline. One of the biggest challenges to achieving this goal will be reducing energy consumption at the company’s data centres. Possible energy saving measures under consideration include IT equipment upgrades, equipment organisation and air…
- News 26 May 2016 SE4All - Helping us all go further, faster The Paris agreement, according to Rachel Kyte, CEO of SE4All, increases the stakes for Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG 7): Affordable and Clean Energy. ‘What Paris did to the SDG,’ she explained during a briefing at the United Nations headquarters in New York last March, ‘is make it even more urgent that we get going on an energy transition that delivers sustainable energy to those who don’t have it sooner rather than later.’ The one-hour question and answer session, which took place before…
- News 25 May 2016 Accelerating Energy Efficiency: From Commitment to Action 2015 was a milestone year for the global transition towards sustainable development. Not only was there a global agreement on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, with its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), but there was also the adoption of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda. The SDG agreement means that for the first time there is a universal goal for energy development, namely the SDG Goal 7, focusing on ensuring access to affordable,…
- News 23 May 2016 Copenhagen Centre at EE Global The Copenhagen Centre on Energy Efficiency participated in a number of different capacities at the EE Global Forum on 11-12 May in Washington, DC. The event, organised by the Alliance to Save Energy, is a well-established annual gathering of energy efficiency leaders that come together to discuss how utilities, regulators, legislators and companies are incorporating cost-effective energy efficiency measures into their operations. Sustainable Energy for All was well…
- News 22 April 2016 UNEP Executive Director Statement on Paris Agreement Signing UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Executive Director Achim Steiner released the following statement on the occasion of the opening day for the signing of the Paris Agreement: "In Paris, the world's nations agreed that climate change is a threat to planetary well-being. Having over 160 countries sign the Paris Agreement in New York on its opening day is proof positive that the world is committed to a global response to this threat. "More than this, the signed Paris Agreement is evidence of an…
- Tools 21 March 2016 RenoValue - A training tool kit for property valuation of energy efficiency and renewable energy issues RenoValue is a 2-year project funded by the Intelligent Energy Europe Programme of the European Union. The project will develop a training toolkit for property valuation professionals on how to factor energy efficiency and renewable energy issues into valuation practices, understand the impact of building performance and property values and advise their clients accordingly.Empirical studies consistently show that within several markets around the globe property pricing differs between buildings…
- Tools 11 March 2016 Clean Energy Policy Resources - By Technology These pages provide access to technical clean energy resources—reports, data, and tools—for a wide range of technologies, covering energy efficiency, renewable energy, clean transport and more.