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- Event 22 April 2022 Official opening of the UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre The Crown Prince will launch a new UNEP a scientific advisory centre in Copenhagen along with UNEP Executive Director Inger Andersen, UNOPS Executive Director Grete Faremo and Danish Minister for Environment, Lea Wermelin As the latest IPCC reports have shown in no uncertain terms, the world is in a climate emergency. We need to increase action on both mitigation and adaptation, speeding up the ever more urgent green energy transition, if we want to reach our climate goals and preserve a…
- Publication 21 April 2022 Climate Change: Business Risks and Opportunities - The Role of Private Sector Adaption https://youtu.be/XE1sZRiAnzU The aim of this publication is to broaden the understanding of climate risks and adaptation from the perspective of the private sector. Many businesses still tend to underestimate their exposure to climate risks, while business opportunities arising from the need to reduce vulnerability are too often overlooked or unrecognized. This publication provides an overview of the business risks and opportunities that are emerging from climate change and its impacts…
- News 4 April 2022 IPCC: The time for action is now In 2010 -2019 average annual global greenhouse gas emissions were at their highest levels in human history, but the rate of growth has slowed. Without immediate and deep emissions reductions across all sectors, limiting global warming to 1.5°C is beyond reach. However, there is increasing evidence of climate action, said scientists in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released today. Since 2010, there have been sustained decreases of up to 85% in the costs of…
- Publication 4 April 2022 Asset-Based Adaptation Project Promotes Tree and Shrub Diversity and Above-Ground Carbon Stocks in Smallholder Agroforestry Systems in Western Kenya Agroforestry has potential to address the adverse effects of climate change through carbon sequestration, increasing biodiversity and improving adaptive capacity and resilience among smallholder farmers. However, this potential is context specific and insufficiently quantified in smallholder faming systems, partly because of inherent variability of smallholder farms. Our study aimed to determine the tree/shrub diversity and carbon stocks in different agroforestry systems within smallholder…
- Publication 11 March 2022 From vulnerability to resilience
- Publication 10 March 2022 High Energy-Efficient District Cooling System and Its Engineering Applications in India This paper introduces the studies and experience learned in district cooling project development in developed countries and adaptation process in India for city-level rapid assessment. There are five pilot Indian cities chosen to go through all the process of rapid assessment so as to outline the barriers, challenges, and potential to develop high energy-efficient district cooling system. The paper also instructs the tech-eco analysis tools for rapid assessment, which is developed by the UNEP…
- News 1 March 2022 UNEP establishes Copenhagen Climate Centre in collaboration with UNOPS Under a new agreement between UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and UN Office for Project Services (UNOPS), the UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre will be operationally supported by UNOPS. “The UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre is a vital part of our mission to deliver compelling science in support of environmental decision making and climate action across the world. I would like to offer my sincere thanks to the Technical University of Denmark for hosting the centre and express my appreciation to UNOPS…
- News 28 February 2022 NEW IPCC report: Taking action now can secure our future Human-induced climate change is causing dangerous and widespread disruption in nature and affecting the lives of billions of people around the world, despite efforts to reduce the risks. People and ecosystems least able to cope are being hardest hit, said scientists in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, released today. “This report is a dire warning about the consequences of inaction,” said Hoesung Lee, Chair of the IPCC. “It shows that climate change is a grave…