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- News 6 February 2023 Carbon market capacity building A new ‘Integrated Assessment for Article Six’ (IAA6) project meets the needs for support on how to assess, strategize and plan for use of international carbon markets to attract private sector engagement in an integrated way with national carbon pricing and emissions trading schemes. The IAA6 project will ensure, that developing countries have the tools, data and technical capacity to use Article 6 carbon markets strategically for NDC implementation and ambition raising aligned with the long…
- News 17 January 2023 Article 6 community takes off in Zambia Carbon markets under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement can help improve the cost-effectiveness of emissions reductions and achieve countries’ climate goals and commitments. But how can the academic community help build the needed capacity for applied research to ensure the best outcomes? In December, UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre started an Article 6 “Road Show”, visiting countries in the Supporting Preparedness for Article 6 Cooperation (SPAR6C) project, to assist them in doing just that…
- News 11 January 2023 Embedding energy and agriculture into Viet Nam’s MRV system In Viet Nam, UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre has supported increased transparency in climate action, with a focus on embedding the energy and agricultural sectors into the national measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) system. Through the Initiative for Climate Action Transparency (ICAT), and along with the The Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA), UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre has assisted in setting out the country’s institutional arrangements for its…
- News 4 January 2023 Swissesco joins the Global ESCO Network The Global ESCO Network is happy to welcome the Swiss ESCO association, Swissesco, as the newest partner in the Network. Swissesco gathers ESCO companies, energy advisory service providers, investors and scientific institutions active in the field of energy performance contracting. Swissesco works actively for the promotion of the ESCO business model through advocacy of energy performance contracting and the creation of framework conditions for the development of the Swiss ESCO market. It…
- Publication 14 December 2022 Blockchain application for the paris agreement carbon market mechanism-a decision framework and architecture This paper evaluates the suitability of blockchain technology for the Article 6.2 carbon market mechanism of the Paris Agreement. The bottom-up approach of the Paris Agreement causes challenges to the robust accounting of mitigation outcomes and information asymmetry, both of which result from a high number of heterogeneous emission accounting systems. Blockchain is an innovative technology that can act as an aggregation platform for these fragmented systems while enhancing transparency and…
- Publication 14 December 2022 Developing a common approach for classifying building stock energy models Buildings contribute 40% of global greenhouse gas emissions; therefore, strategies that can substantially reduce emissions from the building stock are key components of broader efforts to mitigate climate change and achieve sustainable development goals. Models that represent the energy use of the building stock at scale under various scenarios of technology deployment have become essential tools for the development and assessment of such strategies. Within the past decade, the capabilities of…
- Publication 12 December 2022 India’s GHG Emission Reduction and Sustainable Development India has made voluntary commitment for reducing the emission intensity of GDP in the year 2020 by 20–25 % below that in the year 2005. The Indian approach is based on delineating and implementing cost-effective mitigation actions which can contribute to national sustainable development goals while remaining aligned to the UNFCCC’s expressed objective of keeping the average global surface temperature increase to below 2 C over the preindustrial average. This chapter assesses three emission…
- Publication 7 December 2022 Commercial yet social: The practices and logics of bringing mini-grid electricity to rural villages in Kenya Private mini-grid developers, which deliver power to rural communities in developing countries through for-profit business models, represent an alternative organisational model compared to traditional state-led, donor-led or community-driven models of rural electrification. However, as the ‘private model’ covers many different ways of doing business, this paper seeks to broaden our understanding of its complexities. This is done by using insights into organisational hybridity as a defining…